Re: Problem installing Windows XP on a laptop already running FC4

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 11/12/05 

Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 18:11:18 +0100

In comp.os.linux.setup Patrick May <pjm@spe.com>:
> I'm trying to install Windows XP on a laptop that is already
> running Fedora Core 4. My disk partitions of interest are currently:

> /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/hda2 on /mnt/xp type vfat (rw)
> /dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/proc on /proc type proc (rw)

> The XP installation CD boots fine but hangs after the message "setup
> is checking your hardware configuration." This laptop did previously
> run XP before I had to replace the disk due to a crash. At that time
> I had installed XP before installing Linux.

> Poking around the Web and Usenet, I'm getting hints that XP has
> trouble installing when it can't recognize a filesystem type. There
> are also suggestions that XP must install at the beginning of the disk
> (presumably /dev/hda1). Is this the case? Is there any way to get XP
> to install on this configuration?

AFAIK, doze will take the first partition in finds hda1 on your
box, which seems to small and hangs, now what did you expect?

So you can think what is faster, fiddling with the partitions,
you don't need /boot on halfway recent hardware, put it on /hda3.
Make a backup of anything you want to keep before starting. Or
just start over with installing doze and reinstalling Linux?
YMMV. ;-) 

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