![]() ![]() Note: The numbers are out of order, because I used Logical partitions for everything except for the Windows partitions and /home. My 100GB drive can only support 4 logical partitions, so the rest have to be Logical. It's pretty straight forward until the drive partitions. The installation article on the archwiki is an excellent resource. After booting into Arch with the USB stick, boot into Arch, and type: /arch/setup There are also numerous free tools available to make a bootable ISO on Windows. Once downloaded, I followed the notes on how to create a bootable ISO onto another USB drive with yet another machine. This ISO includes all core packages so the system doesn't need to be online to install. I downloading the Core Image via torrent from. Drivers from Linksys/Cysco's website didn't work, but following this blog post, the generic RALink drivers worked great. I have an old Linksys (Cysco) WMP54G Wireless PCI Card. The default value for the shrink is 50%, so for my setup the value for the new disk size was ~50GB, which was ideal. Once installed, via Start Menu > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Manamagent, select 'Shrink Partition' on the main Windows parition to create another partition for Arch. Windows also creates a System Reserved partition for itself. Boot with the USB drive, then install Windows on the drive in a single partition. It's required to create this key from a Windows 7 system. Windows was installed from a USB stick using Microsoft's Windows 7 USB/DVD tool. linksys wmp54g wireless pci network card.AMD X2 dual-core processor, running at 2.8 ghz, circa 2002. ![]() Documentation of the process of installing archlinux and Windows 7 in a dual-boot configuration. ![]()
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