Re: HELP - dual boot with ms-xp

[Dean Hedin <dhedin-at-ieee.org>]

Hi Ray,  I just did this on my laptop recently.

I used Partition Magic 8.0 to shrink the XP partition.  It's a good idea to 
dfrag in XP before you do this.

I then booted the Redhat CD and manually created the linux partitions
using druid.  I left some free space on the drive that I later made into
a FAT32 drive under XP.  Since Linux cannot mount XP ntfs, it's handy to
have a FAT32 partiton that you can mount in linux to share files between
the two OS's.


On Friday 09 May 2003 10:19 am, Ray Henry wrote:
> I need to shrink an xp install and make space for linux and EMC on a Dell
> PC. Dual boot using Grub or Lilo would be nice.
>
> I'm completely ignorant of how to do this and what effect it might have on
> the use of the MS recover disk when that other os goes to the hot place.
>
> As the Beetles used to say, "Help me if you can, I'm feeling down /And I do
> appreciate your being round..."
>
> Ray