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

From: Ed Light (nobody_at_nobody.there)
Date: 08/30/03


Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:23:17 -0700


"Gordon Burgess-Parker" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Ed Light" <nobody@nobody.there> wrote in message
> news:vkvcdgocge6m13@corp.supernews.com...
> > 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.)
>
> What "failing" is that? I've always installed XP straight onto an NTFS
> partition that XP setup has formatted from scratch and never had any
> problem.
>

I don't honestly remember.

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Ed Light
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