Fedora core 3 / XP dual boot

T Raymond trlist at insightbb.com
Mon Mar 14 03:17:55 UTC 2005


Hi,
You do have to use a partitioning software to dual boot. In my class and 
textbook, they say to do that first. HTH.
--Teresa

Richard E Miles wrote:

>On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 10:38:17 -0000
>"Irving, Dave" <Dave.Irving at logicacmg.com> wrote:
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>>Hi All,
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>>I went out yesterday and bought myself a new laptop (HP Pavilion
>>ze2000), which came with XP installed.
>>So, first thing to do: get Fedora 3 on it of course!
>>I'd really like to dual boot it - and after reading the red-hat docs, Im
>>still not totally sure what to do....
>>My hard drive is not currently partitioned.
>>Do I need to partition it pre install, or will it be possible to
>>partition during install? (if so, will I be given the option as to how
>>much free room to leave on the XP partition, and is the partitioning
>>non-destructive?). 
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>>Would be really grateful for any advice....
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>>Thanks,
>>
>>Dave
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>I believe you have to set up some space on the disk beforehand so that
>fedora has room to install. I havn't done this myself as I don't dual
>boot.
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