Re: Boot CD and Booting with XP:

From: Zhang Lei (zhl_at_nanjing-fnst.com)
Date: 03/09/05

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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:56:26 +0800

    To create a boot CD,you may burn the fille "boot.iso" in the 1st disk to a
    CDR.

    Regards
    Zhang Lei

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Michael Yanowitz" <yanowitzmjy@yahoo.com>
    To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
    Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 3:14 AM
    Subject: Boot CD and Booting with XP:

    > Hello:
    >
    > I've got a new PC that came with XP installed. I
    > added Red Hat Fedora. I have not been able to boot
    > into Linux. The first time, I tried, I overwrote the MBR
    > and couldn't boot into either. The computer does not
    > have a floppy drive, but I can boot off of a CD.
    > So my questions are thus:
    >
    > 1) How do I create a boot CD? (Do the instructions for
    > a boot floppy appy to CDs)?
    >
    > 2) I tried to update GRUB to boot off of something other
    > than the MBR but it wouldn't let me save the configuration
    > unless I changed the kernel. So how can I update GRUB to boot both XP
    > and Linux? Any advice:
    >
    > D: Primary FAT32 3.5GB
    > C: Primary NTFS 48.8GB
    > * Primary Linux Ext3 103MB
    > * Extended
    > * Logical Linux Ext3 21.1GB
    > * Logical Linux Swap 988MB
    >
    > 3) What is the best way to set this up for dual boot?
    >
    > Thanks in advance
    >
    >
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