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>3. The basics</A
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>The primary purpose of this document is
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to make the co-existance between Windows and Linux as simple and uncomplex
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as possible which means as far as Windows is concerned Linux doesn't
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exist. It is now possible to install Linux on a Windows partition as a disk
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image with what is known as the <SPAN
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> filesystem
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– RedHat and Mandrake offer this – but it's an extremely bad
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idea because of the way Windows handles files. Defragmenting the system will
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become a nightmare and Linux itself will crawl and it will ruin both your
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Windows and Linux experience. The same applies to the
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<SPAN
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>Umsdos</SPAN
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> filesystem (though Linux won't crawl) and
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it's best to install Linux on a partition of its own. This document makes a
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few presumptions but nothing to worry about – just a few.</P
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>You are using Windows 9x (95,98) not Me or 2000.</P
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>You are familiar with computers <SPAN
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how to boot the system using the floppy or cdrom drive</P
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>You know what a partition is and want to install Linux on a
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partition of its own</P
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>You have a large hard disk – upward of
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<TT
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>8.4</TT
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><EFBFBD>Gb – which currently holds
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Windows and on which you intend to install Linux (even
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those who with smaller disks can read on).</P
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>With that out of the way we can begin. The first thing to do is to
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make space for Linux. Like other Linux wannabes you are likely to be stuck
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with a huge single partition with Windows on it. This would be your
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> drive. In my case it was hogging
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<TT
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>13.5</TT
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><EFBFBD>gigs. You have to make a separate partition
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for Linux out of this space (which would then be labelled as
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>). You can either use Windows
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> which really is not a good idea as it
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would entail losing all your data and making new partitions from scratch,
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one for Windows and one for Linux, or you can take the easier and far more
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convenient way out and use a free and excellent non-destructive
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partitioning utility called <SPAN
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>Fips</SPAN
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>. What makes
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<SPAN
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>Fips</SPAN
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> special is its ability to create a new
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partition out of the free space in your <I
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partition without any loss of data. The latest version of
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<SPAN
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>Fips</SPAN
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> (<TT
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>2.0</TT
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>) is available at
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its homepage <A
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>http://www.igd.fhg.de/~aschaefe/fips/</A
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>
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and most Linux distributions carry it under the
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<TT
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>/dostools</TT
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> or
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<TT
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>/dosutils</TT
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> directory in the primary
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cd.</P
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>We are going to concentrate on using
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<SPAN
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> so if you are going to use Windows
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> – which actually is totally
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unnecessary unless you have just bought a new system and even then it's a
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better idea to make a single partition with Windows
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<SPAN
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>Fdisk</SPAN
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>, install Windows on it and then use
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<SPAN
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> to split it for reasons that I'm going to
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explain later in this document – or a commercial partition utility
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like <SPAN
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