Re: install help for dual boot w/ xp

[Walter Worth <wworth prodigy net>]

On Sunday, 1 Jun 03, Max Powers <can2two hotmail com>
wrote:
> OK I got Patition magic 8 and created a second NTFS
> type partition(size 
> 11,695.7mb).  ParitionMagic says I can install a
> Linux OS on this. However 
> when I go to install am told that I need a Native
> Linux Partion or some crap 
> and I can't figure out how to make an area for a
> swap file for the neew 
> Linux OS. This is all while inside the Redhat7.1
> Install screens.
> 

Thanks for the feedback, and I have RH versions 7.0
through 9.0 but they are on separate machines. On the
test machine I
used,http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/s1-diskpartauto.html.
Depending on how much data that you have on your XP
partition, I would recommend backing it up, wiping the
disk and starting from scratch, installing XP first
and then Linux. I would also recommend that you
download the ISO's for 9.0 (if this is reasonable) and
install 9.0 vice 7.1 since there have been changes in
the newer kernel and support for NTFS partitions is better.