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#1 2008-10-26 15:17:38
- lintz
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Partion problem, Cant intastall XP,maximum numbers of partion.[SOLVED]
Hi
I need some help i have installd arch for the 2nd time now but desided to have a dual boot arch and xp.
But after shrinking the /home partion I can't install xp becouse it complains about that i alredy have maximum nummbers of partions. Is there a good way of mergin the / and /home partions? Witout data losts? The partions are in ext3. Used the partion skript in the core install cd.
//Linus
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#2 2008-10-26 15:19:36
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Re: Partion problem, Cant intastall XP,maximum numbers of partion.[SOLVED]
use lvm 
otherwise: go to init 1, mount the home partition to /mnt, cp -a /mnt /home and there you are
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#3 2008-10-26 15:22:24
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Re: Partion problem, Cant intastall XP,maximum numbers of partion.[SOLVED]
LVM is not an option atm. ^^ The other sounds good but do I need to change any thing in the mtab? To mount it correctly at boot?
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#4 2008-10-26 16:01:55
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Re: Partion problem, Cant intastall XP,maximum numbers of partion.[SOLVED]
I'm not sure about mtab but you should remove any reference to "/dev/sdxx /home ... etc" that you would likely have in /etc/fstab since it isn't located there anymore.
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#5 2008-10-26 16:04:44
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Re: Partion problem, Cant intastall XP,maximum numbers of partion.[SOLVED]
The solution: Format the XP parition to fat or fat32 with gparted or w/e you use. The install XP. Works like a charm.
Ps: I had the same problem.
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#6 2008-10-26 16:42:34
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Re: Partion problem, Cant intastall XP,maximum numbers of partion.[SOLVED]
okey i created a partinon whit gparted for xp but coulden format it to fat 32 so made it ext2 after i triead to install xp on it my coputer says operation system not found when i try to reboot :S.
Edit desided to install all from scratch and start with xp.
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#7 2008-10-26 16:53:25
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Re: Partion problem, Cant intastall XP,maximum numbers of partion.[SOLVED]
okey i created a partinon whit gparted for xp but coulden format it to fat 32 so made it ext2 after i triead to install xp on it my coputer says operation system not found when i try to reboot :S.
Edit desided to install all from scratch and start with xp.
thats too bad, why couldn't it format to fat32?
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#8 2008-10-26 17:05:24
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Re: Partion problem, Cant intastall XP,maximum numbers of partion.[SOLVED]
couldent chose those dont know why:S
PS will mark this as SOLVED when i know how:D
Marked ass SOLVED now is just wating for the pacman -S alsa-utils xorg.... and on. 
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