On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 11:24:02PM +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: > I managed to do this on my laptop - I have XP and linux working dual > boot (although I haven't booted XP in months - I just keep it cos I had > to pay for it... ) > The only difficulty is that you have to get a recent version of > partition magic (8?) to resize the xp ntfs partition - it's a different > version to win2k. > > I managed it Ok anyway, and I'm usually hopeless with that kind of > thing... Yeah, same here. I think I just wiped the whole disk, installed linux then installed XP (in a tiny partition in the end of the disk), then restored GRUB. It was fine. I think I've used XP exactly once, to download some docs to get the wireless card running in linux :) It crashed twice during me looking for the docs :/ The machine was /highly/ alergic to win2k though, which some people had told be was better than XP. I think the machine wanted the particular distribution that comes from the hardware manufacturer, as a freinds nearly identical laptop came with 2k, and that works fine. - Steve
