dual boot Windows XP and Fedora 8

Abhishek Rane abhishekrane at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 12:46:50 UTC 2008


Robert L Cochran wrote:
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>> Is there anything on the web -- or does anyone know -- about a procedure
>> for setting up a dual boot of Windows XP and Fedora 8? I have XP running
>> on one of two hard drives and would like to install Fedora on the
>> second. Thanks for the help!
>>
>> Jerry
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> I have a very convenient arrangement made possible by my (newer
> technology, but not leading edge) Dell Latitude D420 laptop. The laptop
> is able to boot off an external USB drive. In the BIOS options I turned
> on the feature to boot from a USB drive if one is detected.
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> I plugged in the USB drive, carefully installed Fedora 8 to that drive
> only, and all is well. It is fun showing it off to others too. When I
> want to boot Windows XP, I don't plug in the USB drive. When I want to
> boot Fedora 8, I plug the drive in and turn on the computer. Presto!
>
> Bob Cochran
> Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
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In the disk management of windows xp My computer>Right Click 
 >Manage>Disk Management  -Delete a partiton(with non important data)  
to create some free space and leave it as it is...
Then install fedora in fedora partitioning create the required 
partitions from the now made free space
That's it..Grub takes care of the dual boot thing




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