help installing Xp into FC6 drive?

Moif Murphy moifmurphy at googlemail.com
Tue Nov 28 09:07:24 UTC 2006


On 28/11/06, Thierry Sayegh De Bellis <linux at glossolalie.org> wrote:
> Mike Chambers wrote:
>
> > Unless something has changed, Windows likes to be the first OS on the
> > computer (In other words, C:\ drive).  I don't believe it will
> > install/run any other way. You may need to repartition and install
> > Windows first, then Fedora afterwards.
> >
> Well, there is a trick around this by remapping the hdd within grub.conf
> that gives you something like
>
> title Windows XP
>         map (hd0) (hd1)
>         map (hd1) (hd0)
>         rootnoverify (hd1,0)
>         makeactive
>         chainloader +1
>
> Look through the list archive for the thread "Dual boot fedora and
> windoz-xp" or read http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=116009942500003&r=1&w=2
>
> hth
>
> Thierry
>
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Hi, new here.

Does it have to be Windows XP? Can you not find a copy of Win2K and
run it in a Virtual?

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