Dual Boot Fedora Core/Windows XP Using a disk enclosure/drawer
Bill Hunsicker
animebill at gmail.com
Sat Mar 26 19:24:03 UTC 2005
After a bad experience with grub, I swore that I would never dual boot
with Windows again (I nearly lost all of my data) and would only try
Fedora Core if I had a second machine to try it out on.
Since then, I have discovered a simple method to boot both systems on
the same machine without using any bootloader.
If this method has been discussed previously on this list, I
apologize. A search via Google did not show any discussion of this
method.
Step 1: Install a disk drawer/enclosure in an available 5 1/4 bay.
Step 2: Place the Windows boot hard disk in one enclosure.
Step 3: Place another hard drive to be used for Fedora Core in a
second enclosure.
Step 4: Place the disk enclosure with the Fedora Core hard drive in
the disk drawer.
Step 5: Install Fedora Core from a cd or dvd.
After these steps are completed, place the disk ecloscure for
whichever operating system you wish to use in the drawer (with the
power off, obviously) and boot up.
I have been using this method for a short time and have experienced no problems.
Has anyone else tried this and noticed any ill effects?
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