FC5 and WinXP

[Mike McCarty]

Knute Johnson wrote:
> I must preface this; if I didn't need Winblows for work, my computers 
> would be Linux only.  Get yourself a copy of Partition Magic, shrink 
> the Winblows partition and install FC on the new one.  I have FC5 and 
> WinXP running on my desktop and laptop.  Both were upgrades from FC4. 
>  FC3 had a problem if you installed Linux on a system with Winblows, 
> you couldn't see the Winblows partition.  I haven't done a fresh 
> install of FC5 into a recently re-partitioned Winblows machine but I 
> think all of the problems are in the past.

No, not *all* the problems. There are machines which check for changes
to the MBR, and go into a "recovery" mode if they detect "corruption".
Compaq computers are well-known for this, for example.

Mike
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