Exhisting Gentoo Setup and XP

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NitroPye · Post by **NitroPye** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 2:31 am

I just finally got my gentoo setup working nice and friendly. Granted it is not the best and cleanest setup but it works the way I want, except I need to install windows for some applications I need to run as paert of my game dev classes at school.

Here is my drive setup.

hda 40gb
hda1 / raid(/dev/md0)
hdb 20gb
hdb1 /boot
hdb2 swap
hdb3 <EMPTY Where I want XP to go>
hde 40gb
hde1 / raid(/dev/md0)

Now when I fire up the XP install CD, it shows my disk setup as expected, and I see the unpartitioned space on what they call h: ??whatever?? so I say create partition here, here is where i want to install windows. And bamb problem I get a message saying it wants to install some files to what i translate as being /dev/hda so delete the partition to clear up some space and continue.

What suggestions does anyone have for not screwing over my finely tuned and longstanding gentoo install. I did the raid so I could basically have a virtual 80 gig disk. I am only taking up like 10 gigs of that ATM so I can move stuff around, but I would like to end up with something large for a virtual disk again, or not.. any suggestions to get this working ASAP?

Off topic: was this the right forum to post this question.. its sort of installing sort of gentoo sort of compter??

Thanks in advance.

liber! · Post by **liber!** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 2:35 am

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=256309

Maybe that's something usefull...

Greets,
Nathan

liber! · Post by **liber!** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 2:37 am

Connect your hdb drive only, install win XP, connect your other hd's back, configure grub....

Greets,
Nathan

NitroPye · Post by **NitroPye** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 3:08 am

Thanks a bundle, fast reply and bamb it worked.

Man I have been out of the PC loop for a LONG time. I havent touched windows in like ages and havent touched this x86 machine in a long time as well. Thanks again. Time to brush up on skills.