duel booting with windows XP home edition, and Fedora

[Josh Coffman]

--- Roger Grosswiler <roger at gwch.net> wrote:

> > Hello!
> >
> >
> >           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?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 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
> 

For me it was easy too. I used logical partitions. I
have 4 partitions: 

1 - windows
2 - fat32 for charing files between os's
3 - root and home drive
4 - swap partition

If you don't need/want a partition to share files; go
with the way Roger did it. 

-j



		
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