FC3 dual boot

[Martin Sandaas]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip Newborough" <mail at philipnewborough.co.uk>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: FC3 dual boot


> Mike Westkamper wrote:
>> Has anyone tried to install FC3 final release as the second OS on a 
>> machine
>> with Win2k or XP already loaded?
>> Or put another way was the bug in FC2 fixed?
>>
>> I got into a briar patch with FC2 and messed up my machine big time.
>> Before I try this again with FC3 final I thought I'd ask.
>>
>
> not tried C3 but have had C2 running and dual booting with win2kpro for 
> several months now. what was your problem with it?
>
> cheers
>
> phil./
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If I remember correctly that bug was only a problem if you tried installing 
FC2 and i.e. XP on the same physical HD.  I remember I tried that once, and 
deleted a partition.  But were able to recover, since I had installed the 
MBR on a different HD (used F8 during boot to chose what HD/MBR to boot 
from).  If I started XP (which was installed on yet another physical HD), I 
could get the partition back with the logical disk manager.

So what I guess I'm trying to say is that you won't be affected by the FC2 
bug if you installed on 2 seperate HDs.

Cheers,
Martin S