<br /><br />02.10.08, 17:32, "Paul W. Frields" <STICKSTER@GMAIL.COM >:<br /><br />> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 05:09:49PM +0400, isad ilexa17 wrote:<br />> > I have the following problem:<br />> > Windows XP is installed on my computer and I want to<br />> > install Fedora keeping Windows alive (bootable).<br />> > Thanks and sorry for my bad English.<br />> This is not a difficult problem to solve, fortunately! :-) You simply<br />> need to have sufficient free space in the partition itself, or on the<br />> hard disk outside that partition. Most people find themselves in the<br />> first situation. You may find things work best if you go to your<br />> Control Panel > Administration Tools > Computer Management > Disk<br />> Management, and analyze and defragment your partition first. I'm<br />> afraid help with Windows is outside this list's topic, but the<br />> procedure should be a fairly simple point-and-click operation.<br />> Once you've done that, during the Fedora installation, you can edit<br />> the existing Windows XP partition on your disk during the disk<br />> partitioning step. Most people choose "Custom setup" for the disk<br />> partitioning to get into the partition editing screen. Click the<br />> checkbox to resize the existing Windows partition to leave enough<br />> space for Fedora. Then establish partitions for the Fedora<br />> installation. You can find more information about disk partitioning<br />> here:<br />> <A href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/ch-disk-partitioning.ht..." mce_href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/ch-disk-partitioning.ht..."
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/ch-disk-partitioning.ht...</A>
<br />> I recommend reading all of Chapter 12, but especially these sections:<br />> <A href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-partitioning-general..." mce_href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-partitioning-general..."
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-partitioning-general...</A><br
/>> <A href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-partitioning-advice...." mce_href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-partitioning-advice...."
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-partitioning-advice....</A><br
/>> Fedora automatically detects your Windows XP installation and sets up<br />> a dual-boot configuration for you. When you boot your computer, you<br />> are able to choose between booting Fedora or Windows by interrupting<br />> the GRUB boot screen with any key.<br />> -- <br />> Paul W. Frields <A href="http://paul.frields.org/" mce_href="http://paul.frields.org/"
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stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug/STICKSTER@GMAIL.COM<br /><br />Yeah really thanks but it doesn't work.<br /> Some "OTHER" booting option appeared but it doesn't work:(<br />When i select it nothing happens. Only the counter sets to 60 seconds again.
What I did, instead of relying on Grub or the Windows boot manager, was to install the /boot filesystem and grub onto a USB key and add the USB slot to my bootable device list in my system's BIOS setup.
That way, if I want to boot Windows, I just leave the USB key disconnected and boot the system...if I want to boot Fedora, I just plug in the USB key, and boot the system.
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 10:53 -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
<br /><br />02.10.08, 17:32, "Paul W. Frields" <STICKSTER@GMAIL.COM >:<br /><br />> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 05:09:49PM +0400, isad ilexa17 wrote:<br />> > I have the following problem:<br />> > Windows XP is installed on my computer and I want to<br />> > install Fedora keeping Windows alive (bootable).<br />> > Thanks and sorry for my bad English.<br />> This is not a difficult problem to solve, fortunately! :-) You simply<br />> need to have sufficient free space in the partition itself, or on the<br />> hard disk outside that partition. Most people find themselves in the<br />> first situation. You may find things work best if you go to your<br />> Control Panel > Administration Tools > Computer Management > Disk<br />> Management, and analyze and defragment your partition first. I'm<br />> afraid help with Windows is outside this list's topic, but the<br />> procedure should be a fairly simple point-and-click operation.<br />> Once you've done that, during the Fedora installation, you can edit<br />> the existing Windows XP partition on your disk during the disk<br />> partitioning step. Most people choose "Custom setup" for the disk<br />> partitioning to get into the partition editing screen. Click the<br />> checkbox to resize the existing Windows partition to leave enough<br />> space for Fedora. Then establish partitions for the Fedora<br />> installation. You can find more information about disk partitioning<br />> here:<br />> <A href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/ch-disk-partitioning.ht..." mce_href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/ch-disk-partitioning.ht..."
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/ch-disk-partitioning.ht...</A>
<br />> I recommend reading all of Chapter 12, but especially these sections:<br />> <A href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-partitioning-general..." mce_href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-partitioning-general..."
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-partitioning-general...</A><br
/>> <A href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-partitioning-advice...." mce_href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-partitioning-advice...."
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-partitioning-advice....</A><br
/>> Fedora automatically detects your Windows XP installation and sets up<br />> a dual-boot configuration for you. When you boot your computer, you<br />> are able to choose between booting Fedora or Windows by interrupting<br />> the GRUB boot screen with any key.<br />> -- <br />> Paul W. Frields <A href="http://paul.frields.org/" mce_href="http://paul.frields.org/"
http://paul.frields.org/</A><br />> gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58
FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717<br />> <A href="http://redhat.com/" mce_href="http://redhat.com/"
http://redhat.com/</A> - - - - <A
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stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug/STICKSTER@GMAIL.COM<br /><br />Yeah really thanks but it doesn't work.<br /> Some "OTHER" booting option appeared but it doesn't work:(<br />When i select it nothing happens. Only the counter sets to 60 seconds again.
What I did, instead of relying on Grub or the Windows boot manager, was to install the /boot filesystem and grub onto a USB key and add the USB slot to my bootable device list in my system's BIOS setup.
That way, if I want to boot Windows, I just leave the USB key disconnected and boot the system...if I want to boot Fedora, I just plug in the USB key, and boot the system.
I have ben doing this using grub (and preciously lilo) for at least the last 15 years. Works like a charm. No need for a USB key. -- ======================================================================= Ban the bomb. Save the world for conventional warfare. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@sbcglobal.net
Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 10:53 -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
That way, if I want to boot Windows, I just leave the USB key disconnected and boot the system...if I want to boot Fedora, I just plug in the USB key, and boot the system.
I have ben doing this using grub (and preciously lilo) for at least the last 15 years. Works like a charm. No need for a USB key.
Add me to the list that has used that method for years. I have a laptop that dual boots F8 and XP. Once I get some more memory in it, I will probably run XP in VirtualBox.
Mikkel
I just set up a Toshiba laptop that runs Vista and Fedora 8, with a partition for Windows, a partition for Fedora, and a shared data partition that is formatted NTFS. I installed Windows first, then ran the full Fedora install DVD, and grub picked up both OSs without any problems. Made a change to the grub config file so that I have more than 3 seconds to choose which to boot and changed the "OTHER" to "Windows", and it works.
Now to get the wireless working in Fedora, but that's an epic for another time.
amy
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel@infinity-ltd.com wrote:
Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 10:53 -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
That way, if I want to boot Windows, I just leave the USB key disconnected and boot the system...if I want to boot Fedora, I just plug in the USB key, and boot the system.
I have ben doing this using grub (and preciously lilo) for at least the last 15 years. Works like a charm. No need for a USB key.
Add me to the list that has used that method for years. I have a laptop that dual boots F8 and XP. Once I get some more memory in it, I will probably run XP in VirtualBox.
Mikkel
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I've been doing Linux installfests for about 15 years. With only one exception I've been able to shring the Windows partition and install various Linux distros in a dual boot. However, I try to be overly safe since we work with other peoples' systems. Here are the steps: 1. Defragment Windows. There can be errors if you fail to do this. 2. Boot a Live CD such as Gparted or Knoppix. 3. Shrink the Windows partitions (C drive should be /dev/sda, and there might be a D: drive). You can do this in Vista with the Vista resize tool. 4. Reboot windows. This is just a sanity check, because resizing does not destroy data. If you fail to boot restore the partition table. 5. Install Linux. Fedora 9 and other distros recognize that a Windows system is installed and should set up GRUB properly. 6. When rebooting, reboot into Windows just to check that it boots. If it doesn't, then there are other more complicated things you can try to do that I won't go into.
I currently run Ubuntu on my laptop with Virtualbox and Windows XP as the guest OS. My home system is a Fedora 9 system also with Virtualbox.
Another way that you can do things is to install virtualbox under Windows (XP or Vista), and run Linux as a guestOS. Linux is my preferred host OS for a number of reasons, but the Linux file systems tend to be more robust and faster than the the Windows file systems, but the advantage to a person who is just getting into the Linux experience is that it is non-destructive.
Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 10:53 -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
That way, if I want to boot Windows, I just leave the USB key disconnected and boot the system...if I want to boot Fedora, I just plug in the USB key, and boot the system.
I have ben doing this using grub (and preciously lilo) for at least the last 15 years. Works like a charm. No need for a USB key.
Add me to the list that has used that method for years. I have a laptop that dual boots F8 and XP. Once I get some more memory in it, I will probably run XP in VirtualBox.
This is actually my plan for my current dual-booting laptop...it currently has Vista installed, with F8 booting from USB, and I'd like to go all Linux with Windows in a VM.
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