Adding FC5 to an XP computer -

Charles Curley charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Wed Aug 30 19:43:18 UTC 2006


On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:07:55PM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Paul Smith wrote:
> >On 8/30/06, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
> >>I'm about to add an 80G sata second drive to a Dell 2.8G XP computer

> 
> I assume the present drive is entirely formatted as a Windows partition, 
> it's a factory install?

Probably. But easy enough to check:

fdisk -l /dev/hda

> 
> That's why I elected to use a second drive for Linux.  The existing 
> drive is 80G and 10G would be more than enough for XP which gets little 
> use ...

Actually, you can get XP and Linux to cohabit on the same drive by
shrinking XP's NTFS partition(s). For the gory details of how I did
it, see http://www.charlescurley.com/Lenovo.R51.html.

As for grub, I wasn't sure how to have grub boot XP, so I installed it
on the Linux boot partition, and have Linux as the default in XP's
ntdetect.com.

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