install core 3 on a laptop that has xp already installed

[Charles Li]

Thanks.  I will try it out.

--- Kim Lux <lux at diesel-research.com> wrote:

> 
> The format may be messed up, but here is something
> that might help. 
> 
> 
> The new laptop owner has a decision to make: dual
> boot or not. For those
> not “in the know” about Linux, modern versions
> of Linux can be installed
> such that the user has the option to select which OS
> he desires to run:
> XP or various versions of Linux. 
> 
> 
> While it is more work to set the laptop up in this
> manner, the
> advantages to a dual boot system are several:
> 
> 
> a) Windows software can be run on the same machine
> in its native OS
> (versus running it under wine in Linux)
> 
> 
> b) One can boot back and forth into Windows and
> Linux while one is
> working out the hardware issues with setting Linux
> up. This can be
> extremely helpful if the laptop is your only
> computer. 
> 
> 
>      i. One can allow a user not familiar with Linux
> to use the laptop
>         without having to educate them.
>         
> 
> 
> 
> There are some downsides:
> 
> 
> a) it is somewhat more work to set up a dual boot
> system.
> 
> 
> b) the XP partition takes up valuable hard drive
> space.
> 
> 
>      i. one has to watch that the use of XP doesn't
> introduce viruses
>         onto the laptop, ie XP viruses running under
> XP that do damage
>         to the boot image or to the Linux
> partitions. Luckily Linux is
>         relatively immune to such viruses, but
> partition damage <from a
>         Windows virus to the Linux partition> is
> partition damage. 
>         
> 
> 
> d) if one is just learning Linux, one has a tendency
> to stick with using
> Windows. If you want to learn to use Linux, I
> recommend NOT installing a
> dual boot system. Some people disagree with this
> mentality. I guess it
> depends what on your patience level, Unix knowledge,
> how critical your
> system is to you, etc. as well as your pain
> threshold. 
> 
> 
> I needed my laptop for a project that had both Linux
> and Windows
> components, thus I chose to set up a dual boot
> system. This is my first
> dual boot system and it works great. I almost never
> boot XP up, save for
> work on a project that requires Windows software
> development. 
> 
> 
> BTW: If you install a dual boot system and want to
> uninstall Windows at
> some point and regain the hard drive space for
> Linux, you can. Linux has
> a tool that can repartition NTFS (and other) file
> systems such that the
> Windows partition can be removed and the space used
> by Linux, WITHOUT
> THE LOSS OF ANY LINUX DATA. WOW ! 
> 
> 
> 
> Obtaining Linux Software and Tools.
> 
> 
> The first thing you will need to do is obtain the
> required software, ie
> a Linux OS. 
> 
> 
> You can obtain Fedora Linux ISO files from
> www.redhat.com/fedora. Click
> on the download icon at the top of the page, select
> a mirror site and
> start downloading. I typically download the ISO
> files necessary for a
> complete installation. I do not download the source
> RPMs unless I have a
> specific use for them.
> 
> 
> BTW: I recommend that you do NOT download
> development or project ISOs.
> While it can be fun to work on Fedora development
> projects, unless you
> are quite experienced with Linux this is a mistake.
> As one developer put
> it: “nothing in a test release should be expected
> to work without
> problems”. It is not unusual when running a test
> release to spend as
> much time debugging and documenting “issues” as
> using the software
> productively. 
> 
> 
> Once you have the install ISO files, you'll need to
> burn them to CDROMs.
> For those not familiar with ISO files, they are a
> file system image.
> When an ISO file system is burned to a CDROM, the
> file system image
> should be expanded into the real file system,
> resulting in a bootable,
> ready to use CDROM.
> 
> 
> It takes special software to burn an ISO file onto a
> CDROM such that it
> results in a usable file system. If the CDROM has
> one file on it named
> <file>.iso when it is done, the burner software did
> NOT correctly burn
> the ISO file. A correctly burnt CDROM will have a
> complete file system
> on it, with the files, holders, hidden files and
> links that were
> represented in the ISO image. 
> 
> 
> Windows typically does not include CDROM burning
> software capable of
> correctly burning an ISO image. A Windows user must
> typically procure
> and install software capable of burning an ISO
> image. Luckily the ZD7000
> machines ship with the Sonic CDNOW software
> installed, an application
> that can burn your ISO files to CDROMs or a DVD. 
> 
> 
> Linux has several applications capable of burning an
> ISO image file.
> Xcdroast and cdrecord are just 2 applications that
> will burn an ISO
> image. My favorite Linux CD software is k3b. 
> 
> 
> 
> To install dual boot Linux from CDROMs:
> 
> 1) Remove everything you don’t want on the Windows
> hard drive. This
> allows you to make the Windows partition as small as
> possible. 
> 
> 
> 2) Download the Linux ISO files and burn the ISO
> disks. You’ll need to
> find a Windows app that understands the concept of
> ISO files ! 
> 
> 
> 3) Download a Linux Rescue Disk ISO and burn it to
> CDROM.
> http://www.sysresccd.org/ 
> 
> 
>      1. Boot with the Linux Rescue CDROM. I disabled
> network
>         functionality and automatic device searching
> finding. Run
>         “run_qtparted”. I resized the Windows
> partition from 75 GB to 16
>         GB, leaving 59 GB for Linux. Don’t forget
> to commit the change !
> 
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