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Originally posted by ranger_nemo There's always that chance whenever you install a new OS. Just be sure you are installing to free space on the hard-drive, or known unused partitions.
You also need to be careful with which OS will boot the system.
At the moment I have no unused partitions.
How can I create one ?
You need to resize one of the existiing partitions. This is where the risk comes, as there is always a chance that the resize will kill the OS on that partition. On the up side, arch can use the same swap that you use for the other linux OS.
I have a disk set up with 4 partitions. ..
xp 6gb
arch 6gb
mdk 7gb
swap .5gb
/home 20.5gb
The home partition is shared between the arch and the mandrake distro (works nicely, esp if you use the exact same desktop on both OS. I started with a 12 GB xp partition and resixed it to install the arch one. This killed the XP install and I had to reinstall. I have seen threads where the resize was successful though.
There is a free software solution to resize partitions: GNU parted. There's even a graphical, partition magic like, frontend: QTParted. You can get RPMs there that apparently work with Mandrake, too.
Hope this helps, best of luck!
-bbp
Last edited by BigBadPenguin; 05-22-2004 at 06:07 PM.
Originally posted by colnago You need to resize one of the existiing partitions. This is where the risk comes, as there is always a chance that the resize will kill the OS on that partition. On the up side, arch can use the same swap that you use for the other linux OS.
I have a disk set up with 4 partitions. ..
xp 6gb
arch 6gb
mdk 7gb
swap .5gb
/home 20.5gb
The home partition is shared between the arch and the mandrake distro (works nicely, esp if you use the exact same desktop on both OS. I started with a 12 GB xp partition and resixed it to install the arch one. This killed the XP install and I had to reinstall. I have seen threads where the resize was successful though.
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