Re: Dual Boot with WinXP

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On Sunday 17 September 2006 14:53, Norm wrote:
> Because of other commitments I need to keep 30gigs wasted on
> Micro$. I have a 60 gig Maxtor hard drive with a 10 gig
> partition for the Win OS and 20 gig for win programs, this
> leaves room for 30 gigs of Linux. I have tried with several
> distributions of Linux and all recognize the 10 gig boot
> partition but roll the remaining into a single partition. How
> do I set up a dual boot and not affect the part reserved for
> windows.  Yes I would prefer to just do a clean install of
> Linux but that is not possible in this case as even
> reformatting and reinstalling the windows part is not
> practical.

In your settings that you are selecting to do your install you are 
not picking the correct one during the HDD partition selection.  
sorry I have not done an install in about 2 months and do not 
remember what it says.

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Jack Gates http://www.jlgates.com