Dual-booting Questoins!

Halt · 2011-10-25 23:45:17

So I plan to dual-boot arch with windows 7. Yeah I read the guide, but last time I tried this i failed hard.

So can I just install it on another HDD? preferably my second HDD? If so how? And is 70-80gb enough space?

graysky · 2011-10-25 23:47:23

Of course you can. There is really no reason to do so though.

Halt · 2011-10-25 23:49:56

graysky wrote:

Of course you can. There is really no reason to do so though.

Why do you say that? I just have more space on my second HDD.

graysky · 2011-10-26 00:09:19

Halt wrote:

graysky wrote:
Of course you can. There is really no reason to do so though.
Why do you say that? I just have more space on my second HDD.

Your original post read as if you wanted to do it, but were as yet unable to do it. Just install to the 2nd hdd and point your grub or grub2 config there. Easy.

Halt wrote:

So I plan to dual-boot arch with windows 7. Yeah I read the guide, but last time I tried this i failed hard.
So can I just install it on another HDD? preferably my second HDD? If so how? And is 70-80gb enough space?

e-simon · 2011-10-26 00:09:29

Having a 120 gb storage partition, i have a multiboot system, to try out several distro's, versions, de's and some playground as reserve.
This said, i can tell you, you dont need (common / basic installations) any more than 10 gigs for your system, incl /home (documents, videos, etc are symlinked to storage partition) and /boot.

My suggestion would be, shrink some partitions on your first harddisk, and keep your second hard disk as storage device only.

Windows needs to be the first partition (2nd works too, if first one is unused/unformated).
Linux can be installed in/as primary, logical or extended partitions usualy without problems.

Where did the guide not work for you?
What were the error message?
Any logs?

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Halt · 2011-10-26 00:22:06

e-simon wrote:

Having a 120 gb storage partition, i have a multiboot system, to try out several distro's, versions, de's and some playground as reserve.
This said, i can tell you, you dont need (common / basic installations) any more than 10 gigs for your system, incl /home (documents, videos, etc are symlinked to storage partition) and /boot.
My suggestion would be, shrink some partitions on your first harddisk, and keep your second hard disk as storage device only.
Windows needs to be the first partition (2nd works too, if first one is unused/unformated).
Linux can be installed in/as primary, logical or extended partitions usualy without problems.
Where did the guide not work for you?
What were the error message?
Any logs?

It was a long time ago when I messed shit up. No logs, I forget the error message.

I kinda CANT I have about 144gb of things i need on my first partition. about 119gb left though.

EDIT: I'll move it to my external as it seems i have space!

Last edited by Halt (2011-10-26 00:26:29)

Halt · 2011-10-29 22:29:55

e-simon wrote:

Windows needs to be the first partition (2nd works too, if first one is unused/unformated).

Why is that?

graysky · 2011-10-29 23:09:33

Halt wrote:

e-simon wrote:
Windows needs to be the first partition (2nd works too, if first one is unused/unformated).
Why is that?

It's a feature not a bug.

Halt · 2011-10-29 23:14:19

graysky wrote:

Halt wrote:
e-simon wrote:
Windows needs to be the first partition (2nd works too, if first one is unused/unformated).
Why is that?
It's a feature not a bug.

Well then this wont work, will it?: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27860063/111.png

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#1 2011-10-25 23:45:17

Dual-booting Questoins!

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