Re: DUAL BOOT QUESTION - HELP PLEASE

From: Dino Buljubasic (dino_at_noplacelikehome.com)
Date: 09/17/04

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    hi

    thank you for the reply.

    I ahve to drives, C (20GB)which is MASTER with WinXP on 12GB and will
    install Linux on ther rest (8GB)
    other drive, 40GB is for Win2003 Server.

    XP ans 2003 Server are already installed and work fine. Now I would
    like to add Linux to my C drive so it can boot any of these OS's
    installed. I have no experience with Windows dual boot at all and
    very little with linux but I think I can make it.

    I have RH 7.2 but would like to get a newer LInux version, some people
    recommended Fedora (which version ???) or Mandrake so I have to think
    about that.

    My mayor concern is that I get the tripple boot work so I cna choose
    which OS to run.

    I amppreciate your help,
    Dino

    On 16 Sep 2004 17:10:52 -0700, trplback67@charter.net (Mike) wrote:

    >Dino Buljubasic <dino@noplacelikehome.com> wrote in message news:<11ejk0p2k7e5ig73oj2gt3rtqfhg92rt8t@4ax.com>...
    >> HI,
    >> I am slowly moving to linux and am quite new in that field so forgive
    >> me on my win expressions
    >>
    >> I have 2 hard drives C (master) and D on my machine
    >>
    >> C drive has Win XP
    >> D drive has Windows 2003 Server on it
    >>
    >> I would like to install RH 7.2 on my C drive so I have it as:
    >>
    >> C drive with Win XP and RH 7.2
    >> D drive with Windows 2003 Server
    >>
    >> I have XP and 2003 Server already installed on C and D and would like
    >> to add Linux RH. How can I make it so that when I start my system, I
    >> can chose which OS to boot between these 3?
    >>
    >> Thank you
    >
    >The first issue is making enough room on the drive with xp, if that is
    >where you are going to install linux. There are lots of ways to do
    >this, I recomend fdisk.
    >Dont forget to defrag before repartitioning. You are going to need
    >about 2 gigs of space for linux and a swap partition. You can get by
    >with less but you will need to know your way around your linux distro.
    >I have dual booted w2k and redhat 8.0 several times but you have the
    >option of formatting the w2k partition as fat32. Linux can read files
    >in w2k that are on a
    >fat 32 partition. I don't know about XP.
    >Let me know if you have problems.
    >trplback67@charter.net

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