On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 17:43, John Noll wrote:

> I'm just a newbie myself, but the following has worked for me.  I first
> installed WindowsXP on my machine (I've done this for both my laptop and
> my desktop).  At the very beggining of the XP install process you can
> partition the hard drive (beware, deleting and reformatting partitions
> with this tool will erase all your data).  I formatted one NTFS primary
> partition for Windows XP, one FAT32 partition to share data between XP
> and Linux, and then just left the remaining space free for linux.  Once
> XP was installed I went to installing RedHat Linux 9.0.  During that
> install process I used Disk Druid to create and format the free space
> for linux using the suggested partitioning scheme on RedHat's site.  I
> chose grub as the boot loader...Whether or not this process changes the mbr or not I 
> don't know.
> 
Yes, when you chose grub as the boot loader, it nukes the mbr and makes
itself the bootloader. 
-- 
Glen Wagley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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