How do I burn an image of linux onto a partition of my HDD?

Question

I have created the bootable disk and it all works fine. I booted my PC from the DVD drive and it takes me through the steps, but I don't want to continue as I do not know what partition it is burning it to? Please help...

Thanks.

Answer 1

You burn into CD's and DVD's. If what you have is a bootable Linux installer, you get to choose exactly what partition you are going to install Linux to. Unless you have created an empty partition on your hard disk to do this, don't continue. You obviously don't know what you're doing. The easiest solution is to get a second hard drive and install Linux there. Don't worry. The installer will figure everything out and offer you an option to use Windows or Linux every boot time.

Answer 2

In the Live session (i.e., running from the CD), type Alt-F2 and type the following in the resulting dialogue window:



gnome-terminal



At the resulting prompt, type the following:



sudo su

cd /dev

for i in sd*; do mkdir /media/$i; mount /dev/$i /media/$i; done



This will mount all available, physical hard disks to your live system. From there you can see which one is the windows installation. Go to /media and use find:



cd /media

find -iname 'system*'



This will return the locations of all files and directories that begin with some form of the word 'system'. Whichever sda folder has the System32 folder is your Windows partition. Usually, it will be formatted as ntfs but may be fat32. Linux systems run on either ext2, ext3, or ext4.

Answer 3

See which one is larger, your current version of Windows is on that,

hoep this help and happy thanksgiving lol