> Thanks Ronny for your reply. You suggest I'd go for a full 40GB > partition for RH8? > > Gilbert > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ronny Aasen [mailto:list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 10:50 AM > To: psyche > Subject: Re: Dual Boot RH8 & XP > > > On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 10:02, Galea Gilbert wrote: > > it's easier then falling of a bike. > > install xp first. > install rh80 afterwards, > rh will detect the windows intall and make the bootmeny for you > automagicaly. > > you can partition as you please, but try to keep the filesystem for the > 'shared' partition to something that both can read and write without > addon's > > i'd suggest ntfs for winxp system (the default) > ext3 for linux system partitions, (the default) > and vfat for the 'shared data' partitions. > > i'd partition the linux part a lot more then one / on 20 Gb, but that's > just me. > > Ronny Aasen > >> Hi Linux Gurus, soon I'll be installing RH8 and XP on 2 separate hard > disks >> on one of my machines at home. I would like to configure a start-up >> menu (say like in dual boot for 2 windoze oses) for RH8 and XP. How >> should I configure things and what things should I be careful of? >> Sorry but I never did a dual boot with linux and windoze before and >> after learning unix and starting to play with it almost 8 months ago >> now I love it to the point > that >> I want it at home too :) >> >> Hardware Concerned: >> AMD Athlon XP 2400+ >> Gigabyte GA-7VRX >> 512MB DDR333 >> 40GB H/Disk for RH8 >> 80GB H/Disk for XP >> >> One last thing: is it possible to partition the 40GB in 2 partitions >> of > 20GB >> and only use 20GB for linux while letting the other 20GB usable from >> XP because 100GB is better than 80GB for those divx movies :) >> >> Thanks a lot for your help >> >> Gilbert Unless something has changed linux is not able to write to NTFS file systems. I'm not even sure that the default kernel will read NTFS. You may have to re-compile it for reading??? FAT32 works fine for XP and linux can read/write to it. However, FAT32 lacks user security (any user can access any other user's files). Gerry -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
