Creating a dual boot

[Louigi Verona]

Hey guys!
I have downloaded 64 Studio and tried to install it to my XP machine. On this page: http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_wind ... htm?page=3
it says I can make room for Ubuntu. But during my installation I never get such an option - only Guided and Manual with 8 Mb of free space available (my whole HDD is 320 Gb). So I am not sure what to do here - does it mean that 64 Studio cannot do that and the tutorial only applies to Ubuntu 8.04 or should I have created two partitions? (although the tutorial speaks about a one partition situation).

[studio32]

good plan to make a dualboot and choose 64studio 3

I think you have to go to XP and defragmentate (right english word?) your hard drive.
Then choose MANUAL when doing your Ubuntu/64studio installation, make your xp partition a bit smaller (if necessary, make backup first) and make two partitions for 64studio, one root (/) (minimum of 10 - 15 gb) and one home (/home), for you files and stuff. You can also make a swap partition from max 2 gb, but that is not strictly necessary or useful afaik.
So you have a partition for xp, one for the 64studio file system (root) and one for your files on 64studio (home) (and maybe a swap partion)

You can also use tools as gparted live cd to do the partitioning of your hdd.

edit: I don't know a good english howto, maybe the pictures of this dutch howto helps you a bit, all though it uses plain Ubuntu 8.04, 64studio installer is a bit different afaik
http://wiki.ubuntu-nl.org/InstallatieDualbootHardy

[Louigi Verona]

Hm. It doesn't work. I have defragmented the HDD, but the situation did not change. I do not have an option of the partitioner like in the tutorial. However, I have used an install cd - perhaps I require a live cd, which I am now downloading. I did try the "Manual" option, but the partitioner said he can't resize the partition for "an unknown reason".

[studio32]

Maybe you can do the partitioning by gparted
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

and then do the install with the 64studio 3 beta cd

[kaimerra]

I always have a GParted bootable cd layin around. It does work really well for situations like this.

[studio32]

Don't hesitate to ask if you can't figure it out. You might even try the lm live chat.

[Louigi Verona]

Eventually I resized the partition with Acronis. Now I am trying to install 64 studio, but it fails on software setup.

[Louigi Verona]

After skipping this step several more errors appeared, but all of them allowed me to continue the installation. Now I can do a dula boot, but when 64 studio logins, I just have a command prompt - no GUI whatsoever.

[studio32]

After skipping this step several more errors appeared, but all of them allowed me to continue the installation.

Which step is skipped? I doubt if you can skip a step when installing....

[spm_gl]

Is this 64studio 2.1 or 3.0 Beta? The old 2.1 doesn't install well on modern hardware.

[Louigi Verona]

Installed gNewSense with no problem. Now I have a triple boot %)

[Louigi Verona]

studio32: it did allow me to skip - software installation.
spm_gl: it was version 2. I will try 3 sometime soon.

[studio32]

studio32: it did allow me to skip - software installation.
spm_gl: it was version 2. I will try 3 sometime soon.

Try version 3.

If you skipped installing software, maybe you can install software as root

aptitude search 64studio
aptitude install ....