Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Dual boot, XP, NTFS

[Michael Procter <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:32:42PM -0600, Richard Morey wrote:
> A friend of mine has the following setup:
> 
> Primary IDE, master:
> 60 GB NTFS, Windows XP
> 
> Primary IDE, slave:
> 20 GB FAT32 (used for storage)
> 
> If he wanted to install Redhat 8.0 along with XP on the 20 GB HD, what would 
> be the best way to go about this (without, of course, getting rid if any 
> information on the NTFS drive)?
> 
> I've really screwed myself over with Linux and NTFS, and I don't want to repeat
> that with a friend.
> 
> Richard
> 

Well, it has been years since I had a computer with that other OS on it,
but since noone else had anything to say, you might be interested in
this from Redhat:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/install-guide/ch-x86-dualboot.html

and since it looks like you might need a partition editor, Partition
Magic and GNU parted get good reviews:

http://mlug.missouri.edu/list-archives/2002-03/msg00272.php3

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