There are a few games I want to play: Medieval: Total War and Shogun: Total War that I require Windows for. I haven't been able to find any clones or full Linux ports of this game, so I think installing Windows is the only choice I have if I want to play these games.
Right now, my first 80 gig disk has the root system partition (hda5), the files partition (hda3), the swap partition(hda6) and the whole extend partition (hda4). Graphically, the end of hda has 27gb of space available which is not part of the extended partition.
The secondary 20 gig has no partitions.
I want to (1) set aside some space either on this 80 gig or on this 20 gig that's empty for a Windows partition. (2) Install Windows, (3) and easily configure the Boot sector (and, if need, partition table) so that I have grub have a bootable menu for my Debian distribution root partition (hda5) and my Windows installation.
What I am worried about in this process is: (1) That I format the partition table, partitions, or boot sector to write into other partitions or disks. I think that last time, however, I did it, I had a partition at the end of the primary HDD write straight into the beginning of the secondary HDD.
I have two devices: an 80 gig with some space left in an the extended partition portion of the disk and a empty 20 gig drive.
Code:
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155061 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda3 22368 99873 39063024 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 1 22367 11272936+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 * 1 20806 10486161 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 20807 22367 786712+ 82 Linux swap
Code:
Disk /dev/hdb: 20.8 GB, 20847697920 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 40395 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
Thanks for you time.