Question about dual-booting/VMware
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Wed Jun 1 14:27:55 UTC 2005
On Tue, 31 May 2005, R. Kesler wrote:
> I'm a new Linux user and just downloaded Fedora Core
> 3. I was planning on running a dual-boot
> configuration with WinXP Home Edition. My computer
> has a C: partition (72GB) and a D: partition (4.66GB).
> It is a Compaq and the D: partition is used as a
> system recovery partition. I am more than experienced
> in a Microsoft environment and was wondering if my
> current configuration would cause any problems when I
> begin to install Fedora.
>
> What I really want to know is if I should create a
> 10GB partition in DOS then install Fedora and direct
> the installer to use the 10GB partition or should I
> let the Fedora installer create my partitions? I know
> I will need a /root partition and a Linux swap
> partition. Any help would be appreciated as I am new
> to Linux.
If you have unallocated space on your drive, the FC installer can
partition it for you. If your drives are full of Win partitions, you'll
need a program like PartitionMagic or parted (kparted/qparted) to resize
the Win partitions and make room for Linux.
I believe you'll need for the partition containing /boot to be primary, so
either / will have to be primary or you will need aabout 100M of primary
space for /boot. It's handy to have /home (and maybe /usr/local if you
install lots of non-RPM software) on their own partitions because it will
make upgrading easier later.
>
> Also, anyone used Fedora with VMware? I see that Red
> Hat 7.0-9.0 is compatible with VMware, as well as
> RHEL AS/ES/WS 4.0 (32-bit), RHEL AS/ES/WS 2.1, 3.0,
> and
> RHEL Advanced Server 2.1.
I'm running VMware 5 on an FC3 host with no problem. I dual-boot with
WinXP Pro (site-licensed version--see below) and boot the WinXP
installation natively and in VMware. It's a bit complicated to set up,
but it works smoothly after that, with a couple of exceptions:
(1) I really hosed WinXP once after suspending it in VMWare and then
forgetting and booting natively. Don't make that mistake!
(2) I don't have this problem with site-licensed XP Pro, but you will:
When you boot in VMware, your hardware profile changes and WinXP will want
to re-register with Microsoft. When you boot back in to WinXP native,
your hardware profile changes and WinXP will want to re-register with
Microsoft. It doesn't take too many of those before Microsoft thinks you
are doing something nefarious and refuses to register your WinXP.
I don't know much about going the other way (WinXP host, dual-boot FC3
guest) if that's what you were thinking about. Take a look at the VMware
Knowledge Base and Newsgroups.
>
> Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks.
>
> Richard
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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