Hi pals...

I am new in operating Linux... I want to install Slackware 10.2 beside windows Vista - Ultimate...

Windows Vista forces to be installed in NTFS partition.. where as I've read somewhere that linux can identify NTFS partitions an mount them with support of an addiotional package.. plz excuse me, I don't know name of that package..

Can you guys pls help me to solv this problem? pls let me know what i have to do addiotionally to install Slackware 10.2.. currently my PC is running on Windows Vista - Ultimate!!

Thank You all

DdOs

I'm not sure what the problem here is.

Linux does not need to be able to recognize the Windows partition to install, it is a completely separate entity. You will probably need to resize the partition to make room for the Slackware installation, because Vista is likely taking up the entire drive.

If you want to read the NTFS partition to get some files off of it, than that is another thing entirely. But read support is included in the kernel for NTFS, so you don't need anything special there.

i think this is the package you are referring to...

if your going to resize your partition then you might want to defrag first (not sure how to do that in vista) and it might be more convienient to just use another drive entirely

If you want to install Slackware without that easy, burn the ISO images on CD, make room for your Slackware by making a Linux partition and a Linux swap partition, then boot on the CD!

That's the easiest!

Hi,

I would add that you should defrag the windows partition then resize the partition. Then you can allocate for your slackware partition(s).