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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