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Standard install. Choose boot media with F12 on boot. F2 to edit the
BIOS, needed for 2.4 kernel (no support for AHCI so select Combination
under Drive). MS/Windows XP already installed, so use the Debian
GNU/Linux installer to reduce the NTFS partition size, but keep it,
and repartition the remainder, ending up with a dual boot machine.
Install: lang=English, location=Australia, kb=American English,
network through DHCP, hostname=belinos, resize NT partition and
partition remainder as a desktop, write partition changes, install
grub, reboot.
The repartitioning of the pre-existing MS/Windows NTFS partition is now
handled directly by the Debian GNU/Linux installer. At the partition step
select:
We want to keep this but make it smaller. Choose the size (40GB) and
write changes to disk. Then partition the new free space as a Desktop
Machine.
Default Desktop partition was:
| / |
7G |
sda3 |
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| /home |
110G |
sda6 |
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| swap |
2.8G |
sda5 |
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Grub automatically noticed MS/Windows XP and added an appropriate
entry for booting.
Root passwd, user account, apt install.
Install sudo for wajig.
Package installs: exim4 (smarthost with no local delivery).
StartX (choosing defaults for setup) has no problems
(initially vesa, then install the non-free fglrx driver).
Install kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686-smp. Set BIOS back to AHCI and in
/etc/fstab change the /dev/hda to /dev/sda. Tell Grub to boot
from /dev/sda3:
# kopt_2_6=root=/dev/sda3 ro
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With the BIOS back to AHCI we can now boot MS/Windows XP and GNU/Linux.
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