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    How to divide 500gb into multiple os boots

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by drake333, Aug 10, 2009.

  1. drake333

    drake333 Notebook Consultant

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    My laptop comes in tm, and I was wondering for the 500gb should i install 500 gb of xp sp3 then win 7 of 400gb and then the rest to play around and get familiar with linux unbuntu...

    Would this be good or should i do win 7 then xp then linux

    of course i will dl all the items listed in the review http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=407187
    on the win 7 version, and find comparable drivers for xp. not sure about linux.
     
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    Not sure what you're trying to ask, but the order in which you install operating systems doesn't matter.
     
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    You'd need some partitioning software, then you can divide the drive up into different partitions you need, the Windows operating systems will need NTFS partitions. I'm not sure which file system linux requires.
     
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    yes im asking for order and possible allocated size...there were a couple posts about putting xp be4 vista on multi boot i read it on maximum pc mag...not sure if ill get vista but does it hold true for win 7
     
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    I thought you can partition in DOS on the boot screen when formatting.? am i wrong.
     
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    You can, from the installation discs.
     
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    For dual boot, linux is installed after vista or xp. For triple, I don't really know. And yes formatting can be done with installation discs. As for size, maybe 50gb minimum for each and keep like 250gb - 300gb for your main OS with all your files/games/music/movies that eat alot of space. I have 250gb in vista for games/music and 50gb in linux for programming.
     
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    so 50 gb for linux is ample space? i want to dabble in it and get better at coding. but decided not to get xp since i have win 7 so win 7 450gb ...linux what ever is left over?
     
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    My triple boot has 30 gig partitions for each operating system, and the remaining space is on a 375GB partition that I use for storage. It's worked nicely this way.
     
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    Give your primary OS (Windows) the first partition(s), that way you can always remove your secondary OSes and expand the partition. With a linux distro on there too, you may end up with 4+ partitions.

    I'm currently in the same situation deciding what to do too.
    My plan so far for my 320 GB is:
    0: Windows - 32 GB
    1: Personal NTFS user space - ?
    2: Fedora boot - 100 MB
    3: Fedora root + home - ?
    4: Fedora swap - 6 GB

    Ubuntu has a disk partitioning tool on the install CD and a guide online, I've been reading the Fedora ones here:
    http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f11/en-US/html/ch-partitions-x86.html
    http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f11/en-US/html/s2-diskpartrecommend-x86.html
     
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    My 50GB included all the ubuntu partitions (since it partitions automatically quite well). I would suggest, for a dual boot win7/linux, to install win7 400GB and leave the rest to linux. Since your hdd won't really be 500 GB ;)

    Anyway if you dual boot you only need to worry about the linux size, since you can format a partition off your win7 during the installation in ubuntu, and just take away whatever space you need from win7.
     
    L4d_Gr00pie, Aug 11, 2009
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