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    Possible to Dual Boot MIE and XP on the Mini 1000 Mi?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by plasma., Feb 19, 2009.

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    plasma. herpyderpy

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    Is it?

    I'm looking at the Mi edition as it is cheaper. Would it be possible to partition the HD and dual boot XP Professional on the partition?

    Also, are there any larger PATA HDDs to purchase?
     
    plasma., Feb 19, 2009
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    anyone?

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    This is probably a little late for your expected response, but I just found this post :D
    Well the answer to your question is YES!

    It is possible to have a dual boot system on your HP Mini using the original XP installation as the first OS on the first partition and Mini Mi on a separate partition with a 1 gig swap. Here is how you do it:

    1st - download the Mini Mi Linux image. and put on USB Stick
    ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/software10/COL25940/dennis-stable-install-usb-gm-1.img

    2nd - remove the XP hard drive from the HP Mini.

    3rd - Insert another Hard disk into the HP Mini to install the Mini Mi Linux distro on a (previously partitioned) 10 gig partition via the same USB stick in the 1st step. Dont forget to enable USB to boot first in BIOS. Boot to the stick and do the recovery install.
    If the installation removes your partitioning scheme (which it may) you can shrink it later to 10 gigs with Gparted in a Live CD or preinstalled Linux distro.
    It will be important to have your source and destination partitions exactly the same size, because you cant copy/clone an 11 gig partition to a 10 gig partition.

    4th - Partition the XP HardDisk with Gparted in a live distro like Knoppix. Shrink XP Partition and leave 10 gigs for Linux and 1 gig for swap. (this can be done on a desktop system (attached by USB, or on the HP Mini using external cdrom drive to run the live distro)

    5th - Clone (copy/Paste) the Freshly installed Linux partition to the 10 gig partition on the XP HardDrive within Gparted. Both Drives must obviously be plugged in via USB for this and unmounted during the clone.

    6th Use Super GRUB Disk or Debian Rescue to install GRUB to the MBR. Grub will recognize the OS's installed and create entries for them in the Grub Menu. The OS's should boot from the GRUB menu, if not the GRUB boot entries may need to be edited more precisely. The Windows Entry is simple: boot chainloader +1
    Linux's partition may need to find the image in /boot/image-2.6.27-i386 to boot or whatever it is on your machine.

    Thats how you get the best of both worlds on the HP Mini.

    This method has been tried by myself on several different systems where installations dont offer you options to install on a specific partitions, and just wipe the HD clean to do a fresh install.
     
    debsid, May 3, 2009
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