duel booting with windows XP home edition, and Fedora

[Roger Grosswiler]

> Hello!
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>           I already have windows XP home edition installed on my pc, and I
> am trying to configure my pc to duel boot between windows XP,
> and Fedora, but first I have to install fedora on a seperate
> partition. should this partition be a primary partition, or an
> extended one? also I was reading how to install fedore for
> windows duel boot, and I got to the part where I am told to
> insert the CD, type rescue, select language, select skip when I
> am prompted "Will not attempt to find a Red Hat Linux install to
> rescue, and then finally where I am prompted (I guess by parted)
> on what partitions that I would like to repartition. I am told
> to type one of these commands at the prompt: parted/dev/hdx, or
> parted/dev/sdx; where "x" is the partition number of the hard
> drive that I want to partition. Know I am aware that in Linux
> drives hda1-3 are resurved for primary partitions, while 4 is
> for a single extended partition, and 5 on up is for logical
> drives located with in the extended partit!
> ion; but
>  what number should I input into the "x" variable of my commands, so that
> I will not erase windows XP, but yet at the same time still have a fully
> functional linux operating system?
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i have multi-boot also. for my installation, all i had to make sure, that
there is enough free space for my linux and windows is already installed
properly. when i installed, i just told ananconda to use free space and
installed grub. that's all and my multiboot-system is still working fine.
like this, i did not have to struggle around. but you really have to have
a complete free partition.

Roger