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|  | Not to take over whole HDD - HOW?
« Thread Started on Mar 22, 2012, 12:45am » | |
This is my first ever Debian based distro to pretend that I do not multi-boot.
How can I allow it to install, without upsetting my other distros? Others: Pinguy 11.10 (64), Win7-64, .... + a few more. My HP Pavilion notebook has two 750 GB HDDs, amongst other things.
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| | Re: Not to take over whole HDD - HOW?
« Reply #1 on Mar 22, 2012, 6:23am » | |
Mar 22, 2012, 12:45am, gregzeng wrote:This is my first ever Debian based distro to pretend that I do not multi-boot.
How can I allow it to install, without upsetting my other distros? Others: Pinguy 11.10 (64), Win7-64, .... + a few more. My HP Pavilion notebook has two 750 GB HDDs, amongst other things. |
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Yeah ! ... is a good Question ...
when you don't ' multiboot ' ... just install it on a HDD external box ... and boot from there ...
or even on a USB-Stick ... with about 64 GB ... will work too ...
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| | Re: Not to take over whole HDD - HOW?
« Reply #2 on Mar 22, 2012, 8:37am » | |
Select no on the auto partitioning screen of the installer and resize one of the other distributions partition, using GParted which will be started for you by the installer. Then use GParted to create two new partitions, an ext4 partition for root and a small swap partition. The user manual has detailed step by step instructions for accomplishing this.
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