You can give the new volume the descriptive name of Porteus. The default choice should be fine except for when you get to the partition type.

Now click on a New Simple Volume and follow the prompts. Porteus doesn't need much and 2Gb should be ample. Once you have found your Windows partition you should right click on it and choose the shrink option. You probably shouldn't disturb this partition either unless you know what you are doing. Some systems also have a separate partition setup where a restore image lives. You should choose the largest partition (usually c:) which is the one that will contain the windows operating system. Remember that you DON'T want to touch the first small partition (about 200Mb) if it exists as this will be your boot partition. Once you select this windows will search and find all the partitions on your system and list them. A window will popup from which you can choose Disk Management. Once again if you choose this method make sure you do not upset the very first partition which is usually around 200Mb and contains the Windows 7 boot files.Īfter this you can boot from your Porteus Livecd and begin to install Porteus to the new partition.Ĭlick the start button and then right click on 'Computer' and choose 'Manage'. Once you click apply gparted will go about shrinking your windows partition and creating the new partition. You can then choose to format the new partition with a linux ext2 file system. After booting from this disk you can first resize your windows partition by selecting the partition and choose the option to resize. Personally i favour the bootdisk method which involves downloading and burning a partition manager bootdisk such as gparted. Creating a separate partition for Porteus If you create your own partitions using a partition manager boot disk such as gparted then be aware of this. Windows 7 users should know that most computers set up a hidden first partition for the Windows 7 boot files and this partition should not be disturbed else you risk not being able to boot into Windows. It will also show you how to change the Windows bootloader to know that Porteus is available and present it as an option in the boot menu when you start your system. Setting up a partition for Porteus is the most stable way and this tutorial will show you how to do this. Porteus will quite easily co-exist on the same partition as Windows, or you can setup a separate partition for your Porteus files. This is where a bootloader gives you an option for which operating system you want to use at start time. Many people still want to have Windows on their computer and this situation calls for a dual booting system. After using Porteus from a USB for a while you may want to have Porteus work from your hard drive.

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