Adding FC5 to an XP computer -
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Aug 31 21:21:18 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 00:19 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 14:33 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> > I'm about to add an 80G sata second drive to a Dell 2.8G XP computer
> > that I wish to boot to both Linux and Windows XP. I have the FC5 DVD
> > from which I intend to do the install.
> >
> > What do I need to know before I start? XP Home is already installed
> > and I have no way to reinstall it, no o/s CD's are provided. There
> > will probably be choices for locating boot and grub, what is best to
> > do there?
>
> If you want to keep the XP installation as-is, and the Linux completely
> separate, I'd consider:
>
> 1. Installing Linux onto the other drive, and only that other
> drive.
> 2. Modifying the XP bootloader menu so that *it* is used to boot
> itself, or Linux.
> 3. Copying a file copy of the Linux bootblock onto the XP drive for
> that XP bootloader to work with.
>
Thhis used to be the wqay to do it in the RedHat Linux days. But for a
long time under Fedora grub does the job without any extra effort.
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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