Installing Windows

J.Markoll j.markoll at free.fr
Wed Aug 10 13:23:57 UTC 2005


> On 9 Aug 2005 at 20:03, Nathan Blackham wrote:

>>>>>So I need to make some space for windows on my main reiserFS
>>>>>partition (or maybe it's ext3). How do I do that?
>>
>>You will have to be careful about resizing your reiserFS partition. 
>>It isn't very safe.  It is kind of like writing to a NTFS partition
>>with linux.  Not that it can't be done but sometimes it hoses the
>>partition.
>>
>>Just thought I would send a word of warning.  If you do resize it make
>>sure you have a backup, because if it gets hosed it will be hard to
>>recover your data if you can at all.
>>
>>Nathan 
daphatbell at gmail.com a écrit :
 > Someone suggested earlier for this person to install Windows first
 > and then Linux.
 > Which is a great idea. After that, I would use a program (Windows)
 > like PArtition Magic and do the resize that way. Sine PM handles all
 > formats, it would be better than basically guessing, or using a
 > program within Linux that may or may not function
 > well with an ntfs partition. IMO of course! :-)
The clue is that the program Ntfsresize coupled with Partman in the 
installer works fine. Just there are two possibilities: either go to
the Ash terminal, located on the general install menu, close from the
downest part of the screen, invoke ntfsresize --help to get the diverse
options offered, or go directly in the manual partitioning, in expert
mode, and let the installer resize it from there.
The Ash terminal access is with the navigation arrow on the keyboard.
It's a clone of Bash, more simple.

According to this page:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WindowsDualBootHowTo?highlight=%28ntfsresize%29

> If Windows isn't already installed, install it first. 
> If you leave space for Ubuntu at this step you don't have to resize 
> your NTFS partition later.
(This, if Gabriel decides to start from fresh installs again).

This how-to mistakes about the possibility of resizing directly from 
within the install starting from Hoary (no precision about the Ubuntu 
version I think) but ends with this link to correct this assert:
http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html

Here a complete report on the resizing I tried from within the install:
https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10120

I feel sorry for myself to discover just now on the preceeding link that
there is no need of defragmenting the Ntfs partition, as I used quite 
some time on it during this experimental install.

I had preceedingly read other links where someone explains his own 
experience, (in Bugzilla too, but can't find it again) and the important 
thing that he pointed out is a confusing screen, at the stage where
it is the moment to resize in the course of the manual partitioning.
The screen asks if you want to continue or something like that, and
the screen that interests us at this moment is just after, under the 
condition to answer 'yes'.
J.Markoll


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