Re: Dual Boot
- From: "Sandgroper" <steveray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:51:39 +0800
"David M" <NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi folks,
I am assembling parts to build a new computer with a dual-boot setup. I'm
going to run FC on it 99.9% of the time, and for the occasional 'must
have', putting on Windoze eXtremely Popular. Everything I have read says
to install XP first (leaving a partition empty in the lower part of the
disk for /boot, some space for XP and the rest of the drive for the ext3
filesystem). My questions are:
Should I format the XP partition with FAT32 or NTFS?
How stable is NTFS under the Linux kernel?
Any other issues that you have run into?
Yes , you will need to install XP first so that it can take control of the
MBR and then you install FC and get grub to write the grub bootloader to the
MBR.
(when you reboot after installing FC , hit the [Escape} key to show the grub
menu and then once in FC , edit the grub.conf file and comment out the
command "hiddenmenu" so that the grub menu shows on every bootup )
As with formatting XP with FAT32 or NTFS , it can depend on whether you want
to mount the XP partition in FC , if you are planning on not using XP for
very much , then the simple way is to format the XP partitions as FAT32 ,
if you want to use XP for important stuff , then format it with NTFS.
Later on if you want to convert the FAT32 system to NTFS , then you can do
it using a XP utility.
If you format the XP partition as NTFS , then you will need to install a
utility to read/write to the NTFS partition.
I have 2 dual boot systems both set up using XP Pro formatted as FAT32 with
one machine running FC5 and the other machine running FC3 I have no
problems with mounting , read/writing the partitions to any of the XP
partitions.
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