Re: FC3 & Dual Boot?

From: Randy Crawford (joe_at_burgershack.com)
Date: 11/28/04

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    dave wrote:
    > Just wondering because I haven't seen it mentioned, if FC3 has the same
    > dual-booting issues that FC2 did with WinXP? I do run and need both on my
    > Dell laptop, which currently has FC1 and XP coexisting nicely.
    >
    > Thanks for any info or leads...

    I've not heard of the problem persisting in FC3.

    If you upgrade your FC1 to FC3, you can avoid the problem anyway, since
    you will reuse your existing partitions.

    Worked for me, anyway.

         Randy

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