Fedora2 and WindowsXP success?

[Tim Alberts]

Has ANYONE had success running a dual boot Fedora2 and WindowsXP system on one hard drive with different partitions?

[Mark Haney]

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 17:12, [e-mail] wrote:
> Has ANYONE had success running a dual boot Fedora2 and WindowsXP system on one hard drive with different partitions?

How many examples do you want?  I have 9 machines all but one are dual
boot XP and FC2.  I have 2 laptops that are dualboot in that manner. 
I've not a single problem other than with one stupid HP that keeps
'recovering' the MBR when I install GRUB to allow dual boot.

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Mark Haney
Network Administrator
InterAct Public Safety Systems
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Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) Kernel: 2.6.8-1.521 GNU/Linux 
17:15:05 up 1:55, 1 user, load average: 1.19, 1.07, 0.75

[Santiago Cepas]

> Has ANYONE had success running a dual boot Fedora2 and WindowsXP system on one hard drive with different partitions?

I've been using FC2 and WindowsXP since its release with no problem whatsoever.
Maybe this can help you:
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=19615

Regards,
    Santi

[Taylor, ForrestX]

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 14:12, [e-mail] wrote:
> Has ANYONE had success running a dual boot Fedora2 and WindowsXP system on one hard drive with different partitions?

We have installed it on hundreds of systems with no problems.
However, I use a custom build that contains the latest updates.

Forrest

[D. D. Brierton]

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 22:12, [e-mail] wrote:
> Has ANYONE had success running a dual boot Fedora2 and WindowsXP
> system on one hard drive with different partitions?

I've had no problems whatsoever. However, I did very carefully follow
the instructions here first:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00908.html

Although problems dual booting from the same drive with different
partitions caught some people unawares when FC2 came out they have been
very well publicised since, and their workarounds. There is a regular
posing to this list entitled

"README: Current Fedora Core 2 Problems & Solutions/Helpful Links"

in which the first issue is

"***WinXP Dual boot problems***"

which also contains the links to the workarounds. This are also detailed
on the website www.fedorafaq.org.

Best, Darren

[Florian Idelberger]

[e-mail] wrote:
> Has ANYONE had success running a dual boot Fedora2 and WindowsXP system on one hard drive with different partitions?

yes, actually it's running since two months without any problems

[Adam Boettiger]

[e-mail] wrote:
> Has ANYONE had success running a dual boot Fedora2 and WindowsXP system on one hard drive with different partitions?

I just did it last week, knowing nothing about Linux.  I used 
PartitionMagic by PowerQuest.  Runs around $70 but is a necessity if you 
want to be able to shrink your existing partition that XP is on and then 
create a new one.  I created a second one that FC2 now resides on that 
is 10G in size.

AB

[Nick David]

You don't need to do that just go online and download the first mandrake
disk that has a free partition resize utility. Just let it setup your
partitions and reboot your system into the fedora installer.
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 19:04, Adam Boettiger wrote:
> [e-mail] wrote:
> > Has ANYONE had success running a dual boot Fedora2 and WindowsXP system on one hard drive with different partitions?
>
> I just did it last week, knowing nothing about Linux.  I used 
> PartitionMagic by PowerQuest.  Runs around $70 but is a necessity if you 
> want to be able to shrink your existing partition that XP is on and then 
> create a new one.  I created a second one that FC2 now resides on that 
> is 10G in size.
>
> AB

[Jim Cornette]

Nick David wrote:
> You don't need to do that just go online and download the first mandrake
> disk that has a free partition resize utility. Just let it setup your
> partitions and reboot your system into the fedora installer.

I used diskdrake or whatever to shrink the XP drive on my laptop. It 
worked out great and cost only time and a couple of CDRs. Both systems 
work fine and the 70 bucks saved was nice also.

Having an equivelent on an FC installation disk or utility disk would be 
great for those that buy new computers and don't want the bother of 
re-installing XP, instead of just shrinking the disk partition down to size.

Jim
> On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 19:04, Adam Boettiger wrote:
> > [e-mail] wrote:
> > > Has ANYONE had success running a dual boot Fedora2 and WindowsXP system on one hard drive with different partitions?
> >
> > I just did it last week, knowing nothing about Linux.  I used 
> > PartitionMagic by PowerQuest.  Runs around $70 but is a necessity if you 
> > want to be able to shrink your existing partition that XP is on and then 
> > create a new one.  I created a second one that FC2 now resides on that 
> > is 10G in size.
> >
> > AB

[John Thompson]

Nick David wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 19:04, Adam Boettiger wrote:
> > [e-mail] wrote:
> > > Has ANYONE had success running a dual boot Fedora2 and WindowsXP system on one hard drive with different partitions?
> >
> > I just did it last week, knowing nothing about Linux.  I used 
> > PartitionMagic by PowerQuest.  Runs around $70 but is a necessity if you 
> > want to be able to shrink your existing partition that XP is on and then 
> > create a new one.  I created a second one that FC2 now resides on that 
> > is 10G in size.
> You don't need to do that just go online and download the first
> mandrake disk that has a free partition resize utility. Just let it
> setup your partitions and reboot your system into the fedora
> installer.

You don't even need to do that.  Download "System Rescue CD" 
(http://www.sysresccd.org) and use "qtparted" to repartition.
> > AB