Chris Wilson Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 I fancy trying Ubuntu Linux and also need to boot into pure DOS, yet my PC is set up with a pair of serial ATA disks in a Raid, running just W2000. Is there a freeware parttioner to allow me to make room for a triple boot system? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheefa Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 Not sure if it meets your needs Chris but this is what I run on my PC. I've got 2 OSs running at mo, XP and 64. Give it a whirl. http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Utilities/Disk_Maintenance_and_Repair_Utilities/Super_Fdisk.html Good luck. Greg PS: I don't know if you'll need to reconfigure your disks though (striping etc) as 3 OSs running in Raid may cause problems. A more techy person may be able to help here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 the above (apparently, from the description) doesn't do partition resizing, although apparently this does: http://www.zeleps.com/ Beware of your (soft) RAID-1 mirror. Linux will probably/possibly treat the controller as a regular sata controller and see the disks individually. There will be ways to control this behaviour but at least keep an eye out to see if the Ubuntu setup wizard sees two individual disks or one virtual disk (the mirror). There are various ways to deal with RAID in Linux, and I believe dmraid can read the sata softraid metadata and work with that, but you may need to be vigilant and careful. I haven't installed Linux on an existing softraid mirror like this so I could be wrong, it's just what I've read in the past. I'd start by confirming what chipset your softraid uses (Highpoint HPTxxx, Silicon Image 3xxx, Intel ICHxxx or whatever) and googling from there before you start. Best bet would be to spend £40 on a 120gb HDD and install it on there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 The dmraid people refer to this kind of raid as FakeRAID. This might help in your googling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imi Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 Best bet would be to spend £40 on a 120gb HDD and install it on there. sound advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffvalenti Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 sound advice. It's certainly the way I'd do it, unless I was looking to do the 3 way partition just for fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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