Thanks for a great site. I followed your instructions and everything went fine
(RH 7/2 + WinXP Pro). The only issue I had (which is unique to laptops that
must share the CDROM and Floppy slot) was that I was not able to make a rescue
disk during the final phase of the Linux RH 7.2 installation. Since I had to
have the CDROM in for the installation, the laptop did not have a floppy drive.
Fortunately, I saw this coming ahead of time and made a Linux boot disk from
another machine.
I also made a 1GB Fat32 partition so that both Linux and WinXP could pass files
back an fourth on an occasional basis (I hate the KDE startup sound, so I
replaced it with a WinXP sound). The only thing I would add is that if someone
wants to create a "common" partition that both OS's can read, they need to write
down the partitioning scheme that Disk Druid came up with so that they will know
which virtual device is assigned to the shared partition (/dev/hda2 in my case).