Newbie Questions....

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Charles Malespin wrote:

> Hi, so I just bought a dell computer with XP installed on it already.  
> I also bought a Fedora 2 reference book that had a DVD with FC2 etc so 
> that I can run a dual boot.   I just found out about the problem that 
> comes up when you try and run Fedora and XP together, but I cant get a 
> straight easy way to fix this problem.  I tried to burn the FC2 rescue 
> CD and boot from that, but it just tells me "missing OS" and doesnt do 
> anything from there.  I have also seen that if you just go ahead and 
> boot and load FC2 that after you can run something like
>      # sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk --no-reread --force -H255 /dev/hda
>    and then it will work again.  Any help would be useful, I am JUST 
> starting with linux so the easier the better
> Thanks,
> CAM
>
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I'd strongly suggest getting the http://www.sysresccd.org/ iso, burn it 
(in FC if you can), boot off it, and run fb1024 or fb800 (for frame 
buffer, so you can run qtparted), run qtparted (run_qtparted command), 
resize your windows partition (if needed), don't use this to re-create 
the Linux partitions, since it will format them. Use fdisk for this (pay 
close attention to partitoin sizes!! re-create them to the block!), once 
you're done, reboot and try to get into Windows, you should be able to.
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