Windows XP and fedora Core 4

Marcel Janssen korgull at home.nl
Sun Feb 5 14:14:39 UTC 2006


On Sunday 05 February 2006 13:32, Jeremy Thompson wrote:
>   The reason, if I remeber correctly, is that windows re-writes the MBR
> (master boot record) so that only windows partitions are recognized.
> Therefore you need to install windows first, then Linux.  There might be
> some programs out there that let you do it the other way around, but I
> don't know them.  Sorry for the bad news!

I think you can just install windows and after that use the Fedora rescue mode 
to restore the Grub installation and add Windows to the grub menu.
A similar approach will be needed when you need to reinstall windows, which is 
a far as I know sometimes needed :-)

regards,
Marcel




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