Installing FC3 on WinXP (Sorry)

Terry Polzin fox3ec208 at wideopenwest.com
Tue Nov 30 15:33:35 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 30 November 2004 10:20, Lotsa Cabo wrote:
> My apologies for asking a redundant question, however I don't clearly
> understand if the problems I've read are with BOTH FC2 and FC3 or just with
> FC2.  I'll make it quick...
>
> My configuration is this...
>
>     ... WinXP SP2
>     ... Laptop with 40GB (15 = win, 15 = free, 10 = swap for win)
>     ... Partition 0 is NTFS a primary
>     ... Partition 1 (on the tail end of the drive) is FAT32
>
> If I want to partition the free space and install FC3, would I be in store
> for any of the gotchas the other dual-boot WinXP folks are dealing with?
>
I don't have any issues on my laptop.  Just delete the FAT32 partition and 
make linux and swap partitions.  You'll want at least 2 linux partitions a / 
and /boot besides of course the swap.

Just overwirte the MBR and during the install add XP to the grub config.




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