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  • Lycoris Install Advice Needed

    I don't really know anything about dual booting etc. and my computer literate friends think that linux is only a server thing and stupid to use on PCs, so I am without any help.

    How do you recommend I install Lycoris Linux? I have an 80 Gig and 40 Gig drive on my main computer and I would like to install Lycoris on it. I would like to install Lycoris on a partition on the 40Gig drive, I want to save roughly 20 Gigs of that drive to use as a backup for my Windows Apps, but I will use the other 20 for Lycoris.

    Should I wait and see if I can find a Linux guru when school starts backup in a month, or can I handle this on my own? I don't want to screw over my other hard drive and have to reinstall windows.

    What do you guys think I should do?

    Oh yeah, I also have a laptop that I could spare about 10 Gigs on for Linux, would that be a better option as I don't care about much of the data on that laptop?

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    I just had a quick look on the lycoris web site and they don't include a non destructive partition tool. There is a tutorial on creating partitions with linux fdisk at this page that takes you through the process step by step, however in your case you want to be partitioning /dev/hdb (primary slave) not /dev/hda (primary master). If you can get a copy of partition magic you can use that from within windows to resize your second hard drive and create the needed linux partitions (you'll need two, one swap partition - about the same size as the amount of ram you have and one root partition).
    Linux labels drives like so,
    Primary master = hda
    Primary slave = hdb
    Secondary master = hdc
    Secondary slave = hdd
    And partitions are numbered, the first partition on the the primary master is called hda1 etc...
    p-two.net

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