Installing FC3 on WinXP (Sorry)

[Terry Polzin]

On Tuesday 30 November 2004 10:56, Lotsa Cabo wrote:
> > 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.
>
>
> --> Cool, but why would I be deleting the FAT32 partition?  As I mentioned,
> it contains the paging file for WinXP.  Basically, there is 15GB in the
> middle of the two partitions that I was hoping on using.

I didn't understand that the FAT32 was your XP swap, leave it alone then and 
use the free space on the drive for your linux partitions.