Re: Fedora & XP on same machine, good bad or ugly

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Steven Kemp <SKemp010@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Good Idea? on different hard drives. XP home installed now.
Good, Bad or ugly? Recommendations.
Steve


Nothing special. You may want to create some unused drive space (via a
partition manager) from Windows, and upon install tell Fedora to use
the un-utilized space only. If you run into problems, hop on to
irc://freenode/fedora

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