Re: Dual-boot question

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On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 04:26 +0000, Bhaskar _ wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have Windows XP and FC5 installed on my machine, and use GRUB to boot. 
> GRUB configuration file sits on /boot/grub as recommended by the book I used 
> for installation. I now want to format my C drive where my Windows OS sits 
> and clean install XP. Could you please tell me about things I should watch 
> out for so that I don't screw up my Linux partition? Would a default install 
> suffice or should I make sure some options are set differently when I 
> install Windows?
> 
> Just trying to be careful. Thanks for your help.
> 
> -Bhaskar
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> My 'fdisk -l' output looks like this:
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1        2550    20482843+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/sda2            2551       19456   135797445    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/sda5            2551        5100    20482843+   e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)

The only thing I say, is unless you need to share files between OS's, I
would use NTFS on XP as it's mroe stable and works lot better and only
create 1 partition for it, you don't need all the other stuff unless
those are file sharing directories or something.

And as the others already mentioned, reinstalling XP will over write the
MBR and boot loader initially.  
But you'll just need to use a rescue CD/DVD to boot with and reinstall
grub.  The only thing I will add to that, is I am not sure if you use an
older Fedora or whatever rescue CD that it will understand sdx instead
of hdx.  Someone else can chime in on that part.

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

"Best little town on Earth!"

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