On 02/03/07, Dave Martini 1 <martini1@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a Dell with a single 73 gig disk drive I want to have XP and RHEL 4 on it. My question is when I install XP first how do I setup the partitioning? I've read where the first 1024 cylinders should be FAT32 and this will be for XP of up to 6GB. Is this required or can I setup each partion as NTFS? Does the Linux boot partition have to be in the first 1024 cylinders? Will an NFTS partition be able to load the Linux boot loader? How sould I edit my grub.conf so that I can pick which OS I want to boot? Thank You Dave Maritni LLNL
Not quite the same, but probably similar enough: I recently installed a dual boot Dell Inspiron 6400 (XP + Fedore Core 6). The laptop came with a 80 GB disk. I used 20 GB fo install XP in an NTFS filesystem, and gave the rest to linux: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 2611 20972826 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 2612 5222 20972857+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 5223 6527 10482412+ 83 Linux /dev/sda4 6528 9729 25720065 5 Extended /dev/sda5 6528 6658 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 6659 9729 24667776 83 Linux I first installed XP, then Fedora. The Fedora install detected an "other OS" in the MBR, so all I had to do was rename it 'Windows XP". Kind regards, Herta -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
