Hello

Sonny (<skindt@swwnet.com>) wrote:

> Hey, I am almost done downloading the final iso of debian and am
> getting really excited to try Linux. Here is my situation. I have a
> machine with windows 2000 pro on it and i want to dual boot to linux.
> I have found a plethera of information that helps me do this so I
> think I am good on that point. In my exictment i converted my
> harddrive to a dynamic drive so I can create a partition to install
> Linux. Then I remembered.... there are no partitions with a dynamic
> drive in windows 2000. They are VOLUMES!!!
>
> Now here's my question: Can I install debian onto a volume and still
> have it work? Any help would be great!..

I don't know enough about Windows 2000 to say how these volumes work,
but the normal way would be to simply shrink the windows partition and
create linux partitions in the free space. However, as far as I know,
the Debian installation program cannot resize NTFS partitions.

> One other quick question. Debian 3 has 7 iso images (7 cd's) do I
> need the upgrade iso as well? or is that for upgrade purposes only.
> Thanks again for helping yet another newbie!

You don't need it. The upgrade CD is for people who already have a set
of 3.0r1 ISOs and don't want to download everything again.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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