Dual Boot with WinXP

linuxmaillists at charter.net linuxmaillists at charter.net
Sun Sep 17 19:09:23 UTC 2006


On Sunday 17 September 2006 15:04, linuxmaillists at charter.net 
wrote:
> 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.

There is an install guide with pictures that shows the details of 
how to do this.

-- 
Jack Gates http://www.jlgates.com




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