How to make FC3 and Win XP SP1 coexist safely?

Yunus yunus at cdl.co.id
Tue Oct 25 06:43:12 UTC 2005


> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:03:39 +0300 Markku Kolkka <markkuk at tuubi.net>
wrote:
>
> > Yunus kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai, 24. lokakuuta
> > 2005 14:08):
> > > How to install FC3 into this machine safely (without destroy
> > > my data and Win XP) ? What partition should i create before
> > > installing FC3? (I intend to use partition magic for this
> > > purpose)
> >
> > Resize your Windows partitions to create free, unpartitioned
> > space for Linux. Don't create any partitions with Partition
> > Magic, let the Fedora installer take care of that.
>
> When I received my latest brand new laptop w/ XP (SP1) installed on it, I
> went in XP, used partition magic to downsize the XP partition, then booted
> from FC3 CD to create a new ext3 partition that uses the just-free'd room,
> then installed FC3 w/o problem. Grub config was properly set by the FC3
> installer and XP appears (and boots) from grub menu :-).

Thanks to wpp and Markku Kollka!
I have succeded in installing FC3. Now I would like to install my HP Deskjet
3920 printer, but i could not find appropriate driver from the list FC3
offered. Is there any driver that i can use  (as a substitute)?

Best Regards,
yunus





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