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Old 06-11-2005, 12:23 AM   #1
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Unhappy Opps! Mepis 3.3 took over my windows partion!?

I had a 30gig windows partion and about 15gig unallocated. I went to install mepis and it ended up taking my whole drive, why?

what are the steps to having a dual boot laptop, ie. xp pro and mepis?

thanks,

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Old 06-11-2005, 12:36 AM   #2
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Check this link

http://www.mepis.org/node/6875
 
Old 06-11-2005, 02:06 AM   #3
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I suspect you make a mistake.
I set up Mepsi on a 160Gig drive - I left a 20 Gig partition in case I wanted to put Win on it at some stage.

Total usage for Mepis is less than 30 Gig - there is still more than 100 Gig unallocated.

So it is certainly do-able.
 
Old 06-11-2005, 10:31 AM   #4
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The why is easy. You told it to.
 
  


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