Re: dual boot with windows xp question

From: Ryan (rgaffuri_at_cox.net)
Date: 05/23/04 

Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 19:50:59 -0400

I have redhat 7.2. Is that version ok for dual booting?
"Ryan" <rgaffuri@cox.net> wrote in message
news:YERrc.42743$Lm3.3841@lakeread04...
> I have windows xp installed on an 80GB hard drive. I have used about 60GBs
> of space.
>
> 1. Do I need to partition my drive before attempting to install Red hat?
> 2. How many partitions do I need? I saw something on a website for
windows,
> boot, and linux.
> 3. Do I have to save all my xp files in my xp partition and my linux files
> in my linux partition?
> 4. Can you recommend a step by step guide to this? There are alot of
> websites, I don't know which one to choose. I do not even know what the
> 'MBR' is.
>
>

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