Re: Setting up PC for dual-boot Linux and Windows XP

From: Ed Light (nobody_at_nobody.there)
Date: 08/29/03 

Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:04:04 -0700

You can use bootitng later to shrink the Linux partition and create one for
XP, manage the boots, and image them too.

When you make the partition for XP make it a fat32 with align for ntfs
checked. Then when you install XP choose NTFS. (This gets around an XP
failing.) 

-- 
Ed Light
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