I have the same issue about windows, recently the university that i work have buy a package of windows 7 and before that they have the windows Vista and XP.<br><br>The internal system that they use here to manage all the database of students work only on windows, so i put some effort into Virtual machine work, and find out that it was the best solution to this issue, you can install any windows ( at least in Fedora 11 i have tested ) and it works, you have your own linux machine, you do not need to change to an OS that you aren't used at.<br>
<br>Today, i have my Notebook HP with Fedora 11, and two Virtual Machines on it, one with Windows XP and the other with Windows 7. An they work perfectly, and the best side of it is that i have my Fedora :D ( yes, i'm in love with Fedora ).<br>
<br>Hope my advice enlighten you to the good side of the force ( yes, that too )<br><br>My best regard.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:15 PM, William Case <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:billlinux@rogers.com">billlinux@rogers.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi;<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 19:19 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> I have managed to go for just under a decade without a Windows machine, but now<br>
> I need to have such, and I'd like to add it to an existing machine with a large<br>
> enough partition which was used as work area for a project since shipped. The<br>
> problem is that while I've put Fedora (and Linux back to SLS and Slackware on<br>
> 2.2 kernels) on Windows machines, I haven't done it with anything else after,<br>
> Linux has always been "the last OS you'll ever need" for dual boot.<br>
><br>
> I'm not worried about the grub.conf, but the boot sector could be an issue, I<br>
> have seen reports that XP with patches and Win7 check the boot sector now (XP at<br>
> patch level 3). other than having to rewrite the boot sector, is that going to<br>
> be an issue? Any other things I should know?<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>I have had the same problem. What I did was make sure of the grub<br>
instructions I wanted to use and wrote them down or printed them out --<br>
just in case all else failed and I needed written notes. I made sure<br>
that I knew how to re-install using grub-install or grub or firstaid on<br>
my Fedora LiveCD or the DVD disk. Once I had protected myself, I just<br>
installed WindowsXP and then re-installed grub.<br>
<br>
It was fast and easy (well not installing Windows -- but you know what I<br>
mean).<br>
<br>
This you should double check, but if I remember correctly, you only need<br>
to install Windows on the first partition if you are going to depend on<br>
the Windows boot loader. Otherwise, you can chainload Windows from any<br>
partition as long has you correctly tell grub.conf where the windows<br>
partition is. e.g.<br>
<br>
title Windows XP SP3<br>
rootnoverify (hd0,5)<br>
chainloader +1<br>
<br>
if windows has been installed on the first disk, 6th partition.<br>
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--<br>
Regards Bill<br>
Fedora 11, Gnome 2.26.3<br>
Evo.2.26.3, Emacs 23.1.1<br>
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