Following the installation guide except don't choose Auto-install using entire disk. You have to create custom partitions and choose your partitions accordingly.

Choose Custom install on existing partitions. But first Run QTParted.


I split the QTParted screenshot in half but here it's showing my 80GB harddrive.


hda1 is my existing windows C drive, hda2 is extended partition, hda5 is my windows D drive, then I created a / (root) partition of 4.93GB on hda6, on hda7 a 258MB linux-swap drive. It's really easy to use QTParted just don't forget to commit your changes and I recommend rebooting once after you created them and then returning to this point.


Choose the partitions MEPIS Linux should use like so.


Install GRUB in: MBR and choose your system boot disk to be the active partition in this case is hda. Everything else is similiar to the above guide...this few extra steps is all that's required when dual-booting with a windows installation.



Updated Jul 1, 2004


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