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I noticed that Bomb has multiple OS installed. I want to dual boot my new shuttle cube (now purring nicely with an empty 80G HD). Any tips as to how to partition for this would be much appreciated.. i guess the first step is to decline the kind MS offer of large disk support. Do I set an active partition or...?

have you taken your new machine home yet? Are you gonna be the new gamesmaster? anyhow, these are your instructions. read carefully I will write this only once: I'm assuming that you are starting with a clean machine, no operating system or data on your hd first off, before you do anything you need to find a copy of fdisk.exe - there's usually a copy on any windows cd. Actually lets stop right here. What fucking flavour of windows are you installing and what windows cds have you available. Wanna give me your telephone number and I'll call you - less pain

Machine is home. Gamemaster... depends on venue? It will certainly be a gaming beast. The machine is clean at present. I was intending to load Win98 then some linux flavour. I've got Fdisk on the Win98 start-up disk. I'm working from home today and the next two days on 0141 418 0174. I'll ring u back if you get a chance to call. Cheers sucker!

but if you got a clean disk and you got fdisk then yes you want to enable large disk support. then follow the following steps. ->press 4 to view the current partitions ->press escape to get back to the main menu ->press whatever number lets you delete partitions - you want to delete all partitions - you will have to delete any logical drives then the extended partition if you have one then the primary partition ->ok now you're ready to begin ->create primary partition (make it about 5 Gb for system and all your windows programmes (apart from games) ->make the primary partition active ->create extended partition and let this take up the rest of teh drive ->create logical drives within the extended partition - this is where you decide how much space you are going to allocate to each use. I suggest at least 35Gb for your games and mp3s and any other data you want to be accessible by windows . you can then just creat one more logical drive for the whole of linux and later use linux to split up this 40Gb logical drive into smaller drives. -> alternatively you could limit your extended partition to 35Gb leaving 40Gb unpartitioned. Linux will then create new partitions in this space - I THINK - gotta say that I have no experience of doing it this way and don't really know what I'm talking about GRIX -> anyhow don't worry about making mistakes as you can always just delete the partitions again so long as its all the way you want it before you start installing windows

ask grix

... cos if not I'd like to just check that I've got some stuff first or even get you to write a couple of directories to cd. If you have then no worries.

Were talking brand NEW pc to hang out with Bomb. There'll be no rush to mess around with BOMB.. it needs proper defusing. That will be an extended discourse I expect... maybe better to leave it primed - could help the gaming :O Need an emoticon for exploding in your face! That's better!

i would recommend doing this: use fdisk to setup a one primary 5Gb active partition for windows, leave the rest of the disk unformatted. install win 98 on the windows partition get Linux Mandrake 9 install linux and setup some partitions (do not change the windows partition in any way!: 5Gb primary for linux using ext3fs filesystem 1Gb primary for linux SWAP file system then an extended partition with a load of 20Gb partitions formatted as FAT32. you can access the FAT32 from linux but not the linux partitions from windows when it asks install lilo (boot manager) to the Master Boot Record (MBR) - it should let you set up lilo to boot both windows and linux, if not I can help you set up lilo to boot both. when you install windows it overwrites the MBR so if you install windows after linux you need a boot disk to boot linux be prepared to do this a few times!