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Gparted... complex? You obviously never tried to dual-boot Linux circa 2000. Repartitioning involved manually defragmenting the partition, then using a separate program (and making sure no other processes accidentally wrote to the disk) to split the partition. I can't remember if the program did the cylinder math for you or you had to actually input cylinders.
Needless to say, you had good chances of losing everything on the disk.
Needless to say, you had good chances of losing everything on the disk.
Well considering that in 2000 I was 6 years old, no, I didn't. I was still convinced the computer had a magical elf inside it at that stage :P I probably would have thought of "cylinder math" as
It's probably not that gparted is difficult to use... I like to figure things out on my own, and have only used it twice, so I guess it's probably familiarity with the windows partitioner that makes me like it; and lack of experience with gparted that makes me dis like it.
By the way, this is my fdisk:
You were right; the ~1.4GB disk is the boot disk; not just the MBR.
I installed LinuxMint on /dev/sda1 (CD wouldn't boot (I'm guessing the OS won't either) so I installed it from within windows)... now I need to make GRUB detect it or somehow add it to menu.lst... the thing is as it's an NTFS partition and not ext3; I'm not sure if I should add something like this:
or this:
...
If I tried installing Linux the same way you had to in 2000; there's a strong (near 90%) chance I'd mess it up. I tend to do better than most people with things like this, but I also do worse -- I do more damage then them, but usually I can fix it :l
I've said it before, my google-search skills are awesome :P it's actually surprising how bad some people are at using a search engine in the sense of keywords. They think if they type in something like "How do I install Linux Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope using WUBI (Windows Ubuntu Installer) such that I can also boot Microsoft Windows Vista x64 and have the two completely independant of each other?" it will answer it properly, whereas they should type "how install ubuntu 9.04 dual boot vista" or something.... It's kind of weird.
Obvious exaggeration there...
It's probably not that gparted is difficult to use... I like to figure things out on my own, and have only used it twice, so I guess it's probably familiarity with the windows partitioner that makes me like it; and lack of experience with gparted that makes me dis like it.
By the way, this is my fdisk:
| # fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xc7285e18 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 1212 9726976 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 1212 1403 1535992 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 * 1403 69332 545643340 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda4 69333 77825 68220022+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 69333 77473 65392551 83 Linux /dev/sda6 77474 77825 2827408+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris |
You were right; the ~1.4GB disk is the boot disk; not just the MBR.
I installed LinuxMint on /dev/sda1 (CD wouldn't boot (I'm guessing the OS won't either) so I installed it from within windows)... now I need to make GRUB detect it or somehow add it to menu.lst... the thing is as it's an NTFS partition and not ext3; I'm not sure if I should add something like this:
| title Microsoft Windows Vista rootnoverify (hd0,2) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 |
or this:
| title Ubuntu 9.04 uuid c38e20b6-c98d-46f9-932d-f898cd451ad5 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=c38e20b6-c98d-46f9-932d-f898cd451ad5 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic quiet |
If I tried installing Linux the same way you had to in 2000; there's a strong (near 90%) chance I'd mess it up. I tend to do better than most people with things like this, but I also do worse -- I do more damage then them, but usually I can fix it :l
I've said it before, my google-search skills are awesome :P it's actually surprising how bad some people are at using a search engine in the sense of keywords. They think if they type in something like "How do I install Linux Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope using WUBI (Windows Ubuntu Installer) such that I can also boot Microsoft Windows Vista x64 and have the two completely independant of each other?" it will answer it properly, whereas they should type "how install ubuntu 9.04 dual boot vista" or something.... It's kind of weird.
Obvious exaggeration there...
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Pfft. I could fill 80 GB in 3 days if I really wanted to.
500+ GB is fairly common, nowadays. It's actually much cheaper to buy bigger disks, even if the cost is greater.
500+ GB is fairly common, nowadays. It's actually much cheaper to buy bigger disks, even if the cost is greater.
^I have 50GB and it got full pretty quick. Luckily I have a large external HD though
I think 640GB is ridiculous too; but whatever. It wasn't much more expensive than the 320GB one so there was no point getting that one.
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