I have a dedicated root server thats currently running suse 10 and suse 9.3 I would like to dual boot with suse 10 and windows 2003 server.
How can I do this?
I can log on through a serial console SSH in PUTTY to a recovery mode from my provider which is running something like a busybox kernel 2.6.10 and do partitioning and maitenance.
What I have now is
/dev/hda 80GB
/dev/hda1 /boot (with grub)
/dev/hda2 swap
/dev/hda3 ext3 /(suse 9.3 root)
/dev/hda4 extended
/dev/hda5 reiserfs /(suse 10.1 root)
/dev/hda6 fat32
# sfdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 10011 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 0+ 6 7- 56196 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 7 137 131 1052257+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3 138 2748- 2611- 20972857 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 2749 10010 7262 58332015 f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/hda5 2749+ 4054 1306- 10490413+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 4055+ 10010 5956- 47841538+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
So… I have the windows 2003 install directory from the cd on my /dev/hda6/ fat32 and I want to delete the first partition which is now /boot resize it and make it my primary c: windows 2003 partition then install windows but Im afraid to format it cuz then what do I do next?
Also how do I do this usually I would just throw in a windows install boot CD and go from there but as I am not physically at the machine and there is no CD drive I don’t know to go about this. I need to be able to install windows 2003 remotely in text mode and get the install output to redirect to my remote serial console
Any tips? Is this even possible?