[UCLA-LUG] install windows 2000 after install linux

Mingqiang Yu myu@anderson.ucla.edu
Fri, 14 Jul 2000 00:53:25 -0700 (PDT)


I think the space from 1 to 16065 is less than 8MB which is
not enough to install windows 2000. Can I create a partition
from 16065 to 4096638 (which should give me about 2G space)
and install windows 2000 there? 

Thanks.

Ming

On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Todd Lyons wrote:

> MIng Yu wrote:
> 
> >    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sda2         16065  17767889   8875912+   f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> > /dev/sda6       4096638   4144769     24066   83  Linux
> > /dev/sda7       4144833   4674914    265041   82  Linux swap
> > /dev/sda8       4674978   7759394   1542208+  83  Linux
> > /dev/sda9       7759458   8675099    457821   83  Linux
> 
> You have free space on your disk from block 1 to block 16064.  You can
> make that partition /dev/sda1 and make it a DOS partition (probably VFat
> would be best).  Then rerun your install disk.
> 
> Make sure that it sees the SCSI card and doesn't go insisting on some
> internal IDE interface.
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