Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
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> On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:07:37 -0800 (PST)
> Cem Kayali <cemkayali@eticaret.com.tr> wrote:
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>> James Hartley wrote:
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>> > I have searched some, but surprisingly little comes up.
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>> > What is required to ensure that the MBR is preserved when installing
>> > 4.0_RC4 to an empty partition on a system already with an operating
>> > system installed?
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>> > Thanks for any insight shared.
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>> Hi,
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>> On my previous notebook, there were Windows recovery on first
>> partition, Windows XP on second one and there was third partition for
>> personal data.
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>> I used GPARTED to create fourth partition by splitting third one to
>> two. Then, i installed NetBSD onto third one and used GAG to create a
>> new boot/mbr. It was easier to install GAG then GRUB, and also it
>> preserved previous settings too... Fourth partition had fat32 format,
>> so that windows and netbsd could both write data on it (data sharing).
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> I've generally done things that way, too, though whether or not I spend
> space on the FAT32 partition depends on what I might want to share --
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> In the past, I used Partition Magic under Windows to repartition the
> disk.  Today, I'm more likely to boot an Ubuntu LiveCD and use its
> partition editor.  (Note: the last few times I've done that, Vista was
> unhappy about something and insisted on scanning the disk.  No big
> deal, and it doesn't take that long, but I'd recommend booting Windows
> after the repartition and before installing NetBSD.)
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> =09=09--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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Just a note... Ubuntu uses GPARTED as partition editor. You can get it as
seperate iso file from http://gparted.sourceforge.net

Regards,





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