I bought a Dell Inspiron 2600 with XP home edition running on a 20 gig NTFS partition.
After using it for a couple of weeks I decided to put Linux on it. So I used Partiton Magic to
resize the partition. I took off 5 gigs of the drive. Made a 500 Mb Fat32 partition, and then
started to install Linux on the remaining 4 gig Red Hat 7.3 to be exact. I picked my apps I wanted
to use on the Laptop and started the process. When I made my partions I mounted the fat32 partition then.
When I got the boot loader part I chose Grub and the boot manager and install it into the
MBR, this is actually the default setting so you shouldn't have to do anything. As I didn't.
Of I course I advise for you to make the boot disk, I don't but hey I know what I am doing.
Anyway It should be a snap to do. Good luck.
Just install Red Hat 7.3 today 05-08-2002. I have a new dual cpu board and had 2k and XP on it. Then I got RH7.3 and installed it to. I had a user tell me that he used grub as the boot loader and all was fine. Well I just did it and he's right. It was actually easier than using the other method. Though if you are already in a situation I would advise staying with it.. OR learn grub. OK now how I did the process
I had 2k and XP on the machine with a 40 gig drive.
I then installed linux into the Master Boot Record using GRUB
Red Hat 7.3 using GRUB as the bootloader in the MBR will mount the XP partition for you
You can even see this when your in Linux and setting the boot loader and where.
If it fails then try this
Then I edited the /etc/grub.conf file and added the following lines to it.
title Windows
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
If when you reboot and try to select windows and it just sits there.
Then you when in the GRUB bootloader select edit from the menu and look
at the file. If something needs to be added then use the option open
option to open a new line then goto the line that you just created
and select edit from there and add what you need to.
Then boot
Ps I used NTFS on the Windows partitions and used Partition 7.0 to resize and linux to make
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