Installing Windows after Fedora core 2

[Tony Dietrich]

On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 18:22, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> mozart_uno wrote:
> >I have installed Fedora core2, and is working fine since October 2004,
> > however now I want to install  windows also in the same box. I found in
> > most of the recomendations that if you want to have a dual system you
> > have to install first windows, but my questions is how to install windows
> > and partition the hd after Fedora 2, without re-installing both systems.
> > I hope somebody can help with this question.
>
> I can't see any special problems with this. Many people have ahd
> problems where windows xp needs repairs after an fc2/fc3 install anyway.
> Remember that windows must be installed on the first partition (before
> the 1024th KB or something like that), so you'll probably have to move
> your fc2 installation.
>
> I can't see any reason why you couldn'tjust install windows, which will
> probably intefere with grub, and then just run fc2 cd1 rescue disk to
> repair grub.
>
> I've got both running and have a  great time. OpenOffice does my docs,
> firfox shares bookmarks across both os's and thunderbird (most of the
> time) seems happy sharing mailboxes across platforms. It's great!
>
> See what others say.
>
> Duncan
Just remember to allocate some of the hard-drive to a FAT32 partition so you 
can share data across both OS's in read-write mode, as Linux doesn't have 
(currently) a safe way to write to NTFS, although an experimental module for 
NTFS support is being worked on.  Currently this module allows read-only 
access and works pretty well, but the module's authors tell us NOT to try to 
write to the NTFS partition.

FAT32 support is good though.  If you install the windows versions of 
Openoffice etc, you can almost always stay with Open Source software as well!

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Tony Dietrich
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