Dual booting redhat and XP question

[dbrett at tcn.net]

the way i do this is start the redhat installation.  I when i get to the 
partition of the disc, I set it up as follows
boot
swap
linux
windows

The size of these partitons depends on disc memory and personal 
preference.  I also make the windows partition the active partition

Once the Redhat installation gets past the partitioning, I reboot and 
start the windows installation.  I would recommend formating the windows 
partition with windows.  Once this is complete redo the Redhat 
installation.

During the Redhat installation it will give the choice of adding starting 
other OS's and which one is the default to start up.

Becareful at the partitioning during installation

The nice thing about this process is, it is possible reinstall windows 
without loosing the Redhat installation or going through this process 
again.

david

On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Dave Martini 1 wrote:

> I have a Dell with a single 73 gig disk drive I want to have XP and RHEL 4 on 
> it.
>
> My question is when I install XP first how do I setup the partitioning? I've 
> read where the first
> 1024 cylinders should be FAT32 and this will be for XP of up to 6GB. Is this 
> required or can I setup each partion as
> NTFS?
>
> Does the Linux boot partition have to be in the first 1024 cylinders?
> Will an NFTS partition be able to load the Linux boot loader?
>
> How sould I edit my grub.conf so that I can pick which OS I want to boot?
>
> Thank You
> Dave Maritni
> LLNL
>
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