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Re: [Bug-ddrescue] ddrescue 1.3 - questions from a newbie


From: DePriest, Jason R.
Subject: Re: [Bug-ddrescue] ddrescue 1.3 - questions from a newbie
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 13:27:08 -0600

On 2/4/07, Ariel wrote:

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Matt Boge wrote:

> PS.  I think I'd like to consider creating multiple partitions in my new
> setup (two 400GB drives that I will be setting up with RAID0).

Watch out with RAID0, if you do that, if either one of the drives die you
lost the data from both. And recovery is much more complicated because
half the data is on each drive.

> I'd install Windows XP on one partition and I think I'd like to install a
> Linux variant on the other to play around with and get more familiar
> with this OS (hey, an old dog can ALWAYS learn new tricks, right?).  Any
> suggestions on how I should do this and which variant of Linux I should
> install?

Create the partitions outside linux, first create the Windows partition
(type doesn't matter, as you will see). Then create the Linux partition,
and then finally delete the windows one.

You are doing it in this strange order to make sure the second partition
was also the second one created.

Don't forget to create a swap partition if you will use one (you can also
swap onto a data partition).

Don't install linux yet (since potentially windows will erase it, and
then you'll have wasted your time) boot windows setup, and ask to
partition the drive - windows should complain about some mystery partition
on the drive, but ignore that, and let window partition the free space
on the drive.

Finish windows install. Now install linux, first of all linux will not get
confused about the extra partition, second the installer will
(should) notice windows and create an entry for it. And finally linux will
do the right thing in regard to making sure you can actual boot (window
can't handle it).

Anyway, as far as what variant (called a distribution) I like Debian, but
try these pages:
http://www.tuxs.org/chooser/
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/

        -Ariel

PS. Another option (if your chosen distib supports it), is to be dumb, and
let windows own the whole drive, then have the distrib shrink the
partition to make room for linux.

If you use RAID on the drives you are complicating things, and I just
don't know what linux will do. If it's hardware raid it should work, but
if you use windows raid, I'm just not sure.


Just a success story with this sort of setup.

I have built a laptop and a desktop dual-booting Debian GNU/Linux and
Windows XP.

I ran the Windows install off of the boot CD.

When selecting where to install Windows, I create a partition on the
naked drive that leaves 20 GB or whatever for Linux to use later.

For example, if I was installing on a 60 GB drive, I would tell the
Windows install to create a 40 GB partition to install on and to
ignore the rest leaving it in the raw.

I then completely installed Windows.

After that, I boot from a Debian GNU/Linux boot CD.

I tell it to use all the free space on the disk to install itself and
let it handle the partitioning.

It uses the GRUB boot loader which picks up the Windows XP
installation with no problems.

There is a boot menu that lets me choose Linux or Windows.

It has worked effortlessly both times I have done it.

-Jason




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