Fedora core 3 / XP dual boot
Donn Washburn
n5xwb at hal-pc.org
Mon Mar 14 02:03:50 UTC 2005
Markku Kolkka wrote:
> a a kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika sunnuntai, 13. maaliskuuta
> 2005 23:45):
>
>>install xp
>>use partition magic to make space at the end of the drive
>>use partition magic to format the space ext2
>
>
> Why not just tell WinXP installer to leave some unpartitioned
> space on the disk? Then you can skip the additional steps to
> resize the Windows partition.
>
Use linux fdisk before you do anything and setup the partitions
setting the "type" to 82 for swap and 83 for linux.
Then load winblows -winblows won't even see the type 82 and 83.
Therfore it will not even try to load anything there.
Then Linux and set grub to see the winblows partition. No addtional
money or trip to the store.
Open Source solution!
By the way "Acronis" is a Linux friendly partition program. I think
it is based on a Linux boot disc.
It even will fornat ext2, ext3 and several others. However, it does
cost something.
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