"Sonny" <skindt@swwnet.com> wrote in message
news:RBFDb.1032$pe.107@news.randori.com...
> 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!!!

I think you can return your simple volumes back to being inside normal
partitions...
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309044#3

You cant make complex volumes (volumes that are raided, striped, spanned)
simple...


but also the linux kernel can recognise dynamic drives, but how would you
create volumes in dynamic drives for linux to install on ?

Maybe you can make them with NT/2000/XP and then change them to be linux
filesystems ?

Lilo and grub should still be able to install on the first sector of the
hard disk
and load ...


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