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Subject:    Re: [linux-laptop] Win XP and dual boot
From:       "Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes" <nando () antunes ! eti ! br>
Date:       2002-03-10 16:03:49
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No sweat.

I've got a Compaq Presario 2700.

It has XP with NTFS.

What I did was I bought Partition Magic 7.0 that can resize NTFS and comes
with bootmagic. BootMagic cannot be installed on a NTFS partition so I've
created a very small FAT and installled the thing. Then, I've created with
PM a swap and a ext2 partition. I've installed Red Hat 7.2 and had GRUB
installed on the first sector of the ext2 partition. Note, if you install
GRUB on the MBR you will erase bootmagic.

There you go. It works wonders. I've done a lot of dual boot notebooks but
that was the first that had a non FAT32 partition. I 've just used the
common sense and my expirience on this.

Partition Magic can be obtained online at www.powerquest.com

cheers,

Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Steffen" <fsteffen47@gmx.de>
To: <linux-laptop@mobilix.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 6:54 AM
Subject: [linux-laptop] Win XP and dual boot


Hello,

I am planning to buy a laptop. Nowadays almost all come with Win XP Home
preinstalled. How can I install both Win XP and Linux dual boot?

Is the following correct?

If the Win XP is on a FAT32 partition, I can shrink it with fips and proceed
as explained in the Linux-Windows-HOWTO. Anything special to pay attention
to?

What happens if XP comes on a NTFS partition? How can I shrink such a
partition?

Assume my XP has crashed and I have to reinstall it from scratch using the
rescue CD (assume/hope there exists one...). To which partition will it
install? Does it need a FAT32 or a NTFS partition? Can I choose? Will it
maybe try
to wipe out my Linux? How can I prevent it from doing that?

To summarize, I would like to have a dual boot system and to be able to
reinstall either one of the two systems at any time without
changing/damaging the
other. Any chance?

Thanks for your help

Frank


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