dual booting XP and Linux

[Mike McCarty]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> In my opinion your advice is completely misconceived.
> 
> Firstly, I imagine 95% of people already have Windows on their machines,
> and are now installing Linux.
> 
> Assuming they are installing Fedora,
> I would say that if they simply follow the instructions on the disk,
> and install the boot-loader as recommended,
> that will work 95% of the time.

I'm tryng hard not to be the guy who gives bad advice 5% of the time.

> You are inventing difficulties which simply do not arise
> in the vast majority of cases.

I find that taking a little precaution at the beginning can
avoid the difficulties that may arise. I also find that
preventing problems is easier, simpler, and less work in
the long run than trying to disentangle the mess which
results when once in 20 bad things happen.

> It's actually quite a bad idea to change disks around during installation,
> as grub has a fixed idea of which disk is which
> (as described in /boot/grub/device.map).

I suggested not installing GRUB on the hard drive until after
getting boot to run on a floppy if possible. I believe in
"disentanglement" as much as possible. I like to have things
work separately before trying to make them work together.

I'm not going to try to respond to you any further.

Mike
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