Dual boot Fedora 13 and Windows XP ???
James McKenzie
jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Sat Aug 28 23:54:49 UTC 2010
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 22:11 +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 10:33 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>
>>> You have to partition the disk, leaving at least one partition for
>>> each
>>> system. One way is to download a live CD (or USB) copy of gparted, the
>>> GNU Partition Editor. See http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
>>>
>> Another way:
>>
>> In XP:
>> right click on My Computer > Manage > Disk Management > shrink your
>> drive and leave unallocated space for Fedora.
>>
>> Once this is done, reboot with your fedora dvd in the drive, choose the
>> unallocated space as your install location and continue.
>>
>
> Yes, that will work as long as a single Linux partition is enough. Some
> people like separate partitions for /home, swap etc., though you can get
> much the same effect via LVM.
>
Before the days of LVM, I put /swap and / as primary partitions and
everything else (/opt, /usr, /home, /WHATEVER) on an extended
partition. This worked well. If all you have is WindowsXP, you have
two primary partitions left....
James McKenzie
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