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

From: John Seeliger (jseelige_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/30/03 

Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 15:42:51 -0500

"Michael C." <mcsuper5@usol.com> wrote in message
news:biptpb$buana$1@ID-169517.news.uni-berlin.de...
> On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 08:16:15 GMT, gary <gary@garysbox.lan> wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:53:27 -0500, John Seeliger wrote:
> >
> > > I just built a PC and have a copy of Red Hat Linux Deluxe Workstation
7.1.
> > > I am planning at some point in the future to put XP on it. How should
I
> > > partition it to do it properly, so it won't have to be redone later?
> >
> > Install away and add a second hard drive later for your WinXP
> > installation. You will probably need to re-install Grub/Lilo, as the
> > Windows bootloader will overwrite your current bootloader. You would be
> > better off going for RH9 as it will have better driver support, the
> > 2.4.xx kernel, and you will be able to read your NTFS partitions. Don't
> > mess about with creating vfat partitions to swap files between the OSs,
> > use a 256Mb USB Solid Disk drive.
> > Enjoy
> > Gary
>
> XP requires that it's boot files at least be on a primary partition on
> the first hard drive. You could change the primary to secondary and add
> the new drive as primary, though you'd have to remember to correct your
> /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf. He really didn't sound like he was
> interested in buying more hardware though.

It would be preferable to not have to buy another HD. I do have another
Maxtor 40 GB but was planning on putting that in a Firewire enclosure.