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Installing with Resized Hard-Drive - Part 3
IDE Hard Drive for: Mepis 6 DVD | Mepis 6.04 Beta 3 | Mepis 64 Beta 3 by: je.saist Preparation Guides: Before a FAT32 or NTFS drive with Windows install can be resized there are numerous steps that need to be taken to prepare Microsoft Windows to be resized. This Guide presumes that the CCleaner, Check Disk, and Defragment Guides have been completed. CCleaner
| Check
Disk | Defragment
| Regseeker
| WinASO
Resize Part 1 | Resize Part 2 | Resize Part 3
Now, I personally am not a fan of resizing a hard-drive with Windows Installed on it in order to install Mepis. I strongly recommend that you do not resize a hard-drive to install any linux. Following this Guide WILL PUT YOUR INFORMATION AT RISK.
Not MAY, it WILL. In Part 2 we covered creating our 3 partitions for Mepis Linux, the /root parition, a /swap parition, and our /home partition. Now lets finish this install. 45: qtparted tells us that the Operations completed successfully Left Click on Ok  46: Go ahead and Close qtparted  There is a Divergance here. To simplify the installation follow along, I turned the system off, took the original HDA out and put the HDB drive in as the master. So from this point the guide returns to showing HDA as you would normally see in a standard 1 Disk Computer System.
47: Alright, lets get started on the Installation to our custom partitions. Check Custom Install on existing partitions  48: Left Click on Next  49: In the Partition selection screen we show that Mepis has defaulted to our first partition, the NTFS drive with Windows. We need to change that to the first Linux Partition. Left Click on the hda1 bar  50: We should now get a drop down menu showing our partitions. hda5 should be our modified /root partition.  51: We need to do the same with /swap which should be shown as hda6  52: Once more with /home. This partition should be hda7  53: Once our partitions are selected, go ahead and Left Click on Next  54: Mepis will confirm formatting for /root. Left Click Yes  55: Mepis will confirm formatting for /swap. Left Click Yes  56: Mepis will confirm formatting for /home. Left Click Yes  57: Get comfy, this could take a while depending on your system.  58: Eventually Mepis will bring up the Grub Install. We shouldn't need to change anything here. Left Click on Next.  59: Mepis will ask for confirmation. Left Click on Yes.  60: If this takes a few minutes, do not worry. That is normal. Left Click on OK when Mepis comples the install.  61: Mepis will now ask about common services.  62: Once you've made your choices, Left Click on Next  63: Mepis will now ask for the computer name, domain, and workgroup. Again, these are up to you, the user. I can't tell you what to put in there. When ready, Left Click on Next  64: If you need to change your keyboard location or locale, this is the place to do it. Left Click on Next  65: Mepis will now ask to set up your login name and the /root password. Enter your password information and Left Click on Next  66: Left Click on Finish  67: Mepis will now prompt to reboot. Left Click on Yes.  CCThere we go, Mepis should be installed on an IDE hard-drive. You may want to check the integrity of your Windows installation though. 4 out of the 5 times I performed this procedure in testing the Windows installation threw a fit and refused to load. If Windows fails to load though, sorry, I did warn you that this procedure does put your information at risk. I missed something about the drives, can I see Part 1 again? I need to see Part 2 again, that logical partition portion wasn't very clear. Take me back to the Guides |