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

From: ~misfit~ (misfit_at_'SPAMTRAP'orcon.net.nz)
Date: 08/31/03 

Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:12:53 +1200

"John Seeliger" <jseelige@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:bioavp$bpdv1$1@ID-146094.news.uni-berlin.de...
> 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?
>
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Not exactly what you asked but, if it's at all possible, get XP on the drive
first. It makes things a lot easier. (Or at least it did for me with my 20GB
HDD and Mandrake 7.1)

Decide how much space you want for Windows and partition and format
accordingly. I then put a seperate partition for XP's pagefile. Depending on
your RAM, inteneded use etc. between 500MB and 1GB for swapfile. I use NTFS
for the XP partition and FAT32 for the pagefile as FAT32 is faster but
slightly less secure than NTFS. That's not really a problem for a pagefile
and, depending on your machine's specs, can make an appreciable difference.

Size the partitions for Windows and Linux depending on what is going to be
your primary OS. 

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