duel booting with windows XP home edition, and Fedora

From: Alex Aguilar (smashhead2004_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/22/05

  • Next message: Jack Tanner: "Re: hp 9100dn no duplex" 
    Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:49:48 -0700 (PDT)
To: fedora-list@redhat.com

    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 on the download site <fedora.redhat.com> (the exact URL of my location was <http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/s1-x86-dualboot-parted.html>), and I got to the part where I am told to insert the CD (FC4-i386-rescuecd.iso for the "parted tool"), 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 wan!
    t to
     partition.(On top of not knowing what command to use) 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 partition; 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 would like my system to start up on windows XP upon start up, unless I press F8 and select Fedora from the boot menu(since I will be the only on in my house using linux Fedora.)

    __________________________________________________
    Do You Yahoo!?
    Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
    http://mail.yahoo.com 

    


    -- 
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@redhat.com
To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
  • Next message: Jack Tanner: "Re: hp 9100dn no duplex"