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Slackware installation partition...
Are there any restrictions as to which partition my CD Rom is installed on? Does it always have to be the last partition or can I install it anywhere I chose? John To change the drive letter assigned to a CD ROM, do either 1 or 2. 1. Go to Windows Help and Support. In the search box enter: Drive Letter.

Installation problem!!!
For information, I give the partition map, I used for the "first" installation, which was successfull. ---- sd0 at scsi ID 0 sd1 at scsi ID 1 ; un disque externe était connecté pendant cette installation partition read, SCSI ID =0 Mounting partition 'A' as / sd0a: Root 'NetBsd Root' at 704 size 307200 sd0g: Usr

Stop c000021a after SP1?
Note: If you are "clean" installing Windows 2000, XP Home or XP Pro, and do not wish to multi-boot your system, you do not have to run fdisk before hand as, during the install process, options for creating partitions are built in. WARNING: Using fdisk to "resize" or recreate a partition will effectively destroy

Got 2008.1, Installed, Now What?
I'm trying to install on a Toshiba T4400C laptop. It has a 120 MB hard drive, 12 MB of RAM and a color 256 Color screen. Now I've gotten Linux to boot correctly, I get into the install program alright. Now the problem comes into play at about the second step when debian wants to partition my hard drive.

Installation partition advice on running XP, 2000 and 98 on 3 ...
Unfortunately they did not make this second partition (D:) bootable. As I'd rather not return the system as it is usable as such and quite needed, and was also rather slow in coming, I have some questions: 1) Is it possible to make the current NT installation partition (D:) "active" and bootable without

Installation Partition Problem
The terms "system partition" and "boot volume" are used counterintuitively: we boot from the system partition and keep the operating system files in the boot volume. Each computer will have just a single system partition, even in a dual-boot system, and will have a separate boot volume for each Windows installation

Warp installing over WIN95 ??????? Possible?
Dan Strick dan_str...@sbcglobal.net lucky freebsd i386 Number: 121124 Category: i386 Synopsis: FreeBSD 6.3 installation deletes MBR partition Confidential: no Severity: serious Priority: high Responsible: freebsd-i386 State: open Quarter: Keywords: Date-Required: Class: sw-bug Submitter-Id: current-users

i386/121124: FreeBSD 6.3 installation deletes MBR partition
How can I expand this partition or otherwise make it bigger? I have PLENTY of disk space, but you cannot decide the partition size during install. Any help or hints would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance, Kevin This of course will probably bring hoards of responses, BUT, something is writing to the root

valid installation partition?
Do not use the escape key technique to install Vista and you will have a boot options menu showing "Older Version of Windows" and "Microsoft Vista". If you run Vista setup from the XP desktop and simply select your desired partition for installation your disk drive lettering will align between the two systems.

Specify Installation Partition AND Directory for Win2K?
The installation works perfectly but when I reboot after the installation the computer is unable to mount the root partition. Resulting in (initramfs) prompt which I don't know how to use. I have installed tens of Debian computers but this has never happened. I tried both the stable and testing installer.

OS clean install, boot repair gone!
Until now I only ran WinNT on my old 3 Gig harddisk (one FAT partition). My intention was to install Mandrake 7 on my new HD and not touch my old one at all, to be on the safe side. The hardware installation went smoothly. I can use my new HD without problems from WinNT. However, when I boot from the Mandrake CD

Installation partition question
First try to make a third partition for Linux swap - perhaps it won't accept a single partition for the mount point only. And second, 100Mb is probably too small for the mount point, give it at least 300Mb. CH My installation of RH 5.1 worked out on one single / partition. This was my first rh installation and

extending the C: partition
Go into FDISK and set the OS/2 partition to INSTALLABLE. The OS/2 installation program should resume and tell you that OS/2 will be installed on X:\ (where X is the The installation partition has not been formatted at this point. Later in the installation process, you will get a chance to format the partition.

Install of Windows .NET Server is Loading Wrong Driver
Problems which are solved quite simply by installing the OS to a much smaller partition reasonably close to the inner portion of even the largest HDs? System Installation detected an internal error (03) This happens when I press ENTER to accept the installation partition. I am also experimenting with a bootable

Vista partition recognition / windows xp partition recognition?
I can tell you however that Mandrake 8.0 still has Linux for Windows that will install on a windows partition. You might want to check it out. Try cruising the Linux newsgroups for more help on this. There are plenty of them... Holy Smoke wrote: Im new to this, slackware does not run in windows partition,

Specify Installation Partition AND Directory for Win2K?
Andrew Murray admur...@iinet.net.au microsoft public windowsxp general You don't and can't install CD ROM on any partition. CD roms don't have partitions. Partitions refer to "slices" of the hard disk drive. Each "slice" can be operated as a hard drive in its own right (even though it is physically part of the same

Changing XP Installation Partition
I create partition because if Windows' installer don't see target partition until installation so if I create partition under windows installer and specify partition for installer the boot files When I install windows I have created partition for it under vista PE (subj of win vista installation environment).

386spart.par- what is it?
It can run in a windows partition if you use the ZipSlack installation. This does degrade performance as you are running on an inefficient file system. It is usually better to repartition your drive using software like partition magic. For example on my computer there are Three partitions Windows, Slackware Linux,

rh 5.1 installation Partition
I will "open" this topis once again to ask somebody here is it possible to "move" or copy boot loader which is now on E partition to partition C which is empty after I have deleted XP and there is still Boot Manager from previous XP installation on C . I still can not believe that such solution is not possible (but

Installation d'un 2eme XP
Harry Thompson Linux...@Datasync.com alt os linux mandrake Im trying to install Linux on a 13 GB HD and I tried to partition it first with Partition Magic. I previously had Linux installed on only a 2GB HD with about 1.5 GB for Linux and 128 Swap, with the rest a Fat32 windows partition. I had no problem with that