Laptop Dual boot with WinXP

[Fred Erickson]

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 09:57 -0700, pgaltieri at cox.net wrote:
> ---- Mike - EMAIL IGNORED <m_d_berger_1900 at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> > Where can I get the best information on
> > how to install FC7 as dual boot with
> > WinXP on a Compaq laptop?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Mike.
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> The most important thing is that you must install Windows XP
>  before you install linux Then you need to create a partition
>  on which to install linux.  You can install partition magic
>  on XP and use it to resize/create partitions since it knows
>  about linux partition types.Then install F7 in that partition.
>   F7 detects that there is another OS on the non-linux partitions
>  and sets up the grub.conf file so that you can dual boot.
>   It will label the other OS as Other in the grub.conf file.
>   By default F7 will set things up to boot linux.  If you
>  want to change the default change the 
> 
> default=0
> 
> entry in grub.conf to point to the XP entry.
> 
> Paolo
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Everything Paolo says plus be sure to defrag the drive before running
any partitioning software. Partition Magic costs lots of money - another
possibility is to use a live Linux cd to boot from which probably
includes qtparted or parted wihch will do the partitioning/re-sizing of
the ntsf drive for you just as well as Partition Magic. I have used a
Knoppix cd/dvd for this successfully several times.

Fred