I would go for USB installation instead of HDD. There is absolutely no risk.Originally Posted by sevic33
I ask for help becose i dont wana delete al hard drive or wrong particion.
Can someone spare a couple minutes to help this noob?
Install BT3
Ok,i run BT3 some times from a vmware or boot from CD and now i deside to install it on hard drive.I got 300 GB HDD and i have 4 particions,20 GB C: where is windows xp, 100 GB D: ,100 GB E: and 80 GB F: .I cant backup 300 GB of data i manage to empty my F: particion so i have 80 GB free space.I need pointing to good guide how to reparticion F: and use 20 GB of it for installing BT3.I ask for help becose i dont wana delete al hard drive or wrong particion.
Can someone spare a couple minutes to help this noob?
I would go for USB installation instead of HDD. There is absolutely no risk.I ask for help becose i dont wana delete al hard drive or wrong particion.
Can someone spare a couple minutes to help this noob?
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There are so many tutorials around this forum. Just look for them it describes how a hard disk is partitioned. In your case you just have to do some transfer work to do for your setup.
Tiocfaidh ár lá
I read some tutorials how install backtrack3 on hard drive,and when i just start its said i should unmount windows particon so i can install backtrack.
I write mount in konsole and i got this:
aufs on / type aufs (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
They are alredy unmounted!
Should i just continue installation or something is wrong?
that's fine, go on
maybe it's easier for you to use qtparted (or maybe gparted) for formatting (just if you dont like fdisk)
edit: and don't forget to backup before!
Auswaertsspiel
Hey im a complete newb at this stuff and i just managed to get the HDD to work fine, after some trouble, so if you need help feel free to ask ill answer what i did to get it to work
I done this part:
Code:Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda7p2 * 1 9 72261 83 Linux /dev/hda7p3 10 197 1510110 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7p4 198 10863 85674645 83 Linux
After this i reboot and look what hapen:
What could be the problem?Code:bt ~ # mke2fs /dev/hda7p2 mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) Could not stat /dev/hda7p2 --- No such file or directory The device apparently does not exist; did you specify it correctly? bt ~ #
Recheck that the devices actually (still) exists by issuing "fdisk -l" (that's an L).
You can try mkfs.ext3 or mkfs.ext2 if mke2fs doesn't work. It shouldn't have any
differences at all, however try it out. But make sure the partitions are still correct
and that they exist.
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hda7pX? Sounds very strange. Normally you have something like hda1, hda2, hda3.
You should first learn (at least to install a) Linux (on a HD). And you can only have 4 primary partitions on one disc, maybe that's your problem.
Auswaertsspiel
You can have up to 16 extended partitions on the drive. I've never tried, but how do they show in the command line?
Oh, wait. Now I see what you're talking about. Yea, those partition numbers aren't right, for one, it's using bsd disk labels, which is why I didn't pick up on it at first.
@sevic33
You didn't happen to follow a :how to dual boot a Mac" how-to did you?
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