Thanks for the reply Forrest, I feel much more confident about doing this now, see additional comments below:
>> -----Original Message----- >> From: Bjarki Bjorgulfsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> >> Hello all, >> >> I will be installing RedHat and Win XP on the same hard drive >> on a laptop. I >> was wondering if you could give me some good advice before I start. >> >> Here is what I'm going to do: >> >> 1. Partition drive (Probably with Fdisk or with the XP >> installation disk) > > Make sure that you leave the space free (unpartitioned). Why does it need to be unpartitioned? Is it better to use Disk Druid to format and partition the rest of the drive then to do it with fdisk? > >> 2. Install XP on first partition >> 3. Install Linux on second partition with the following partitions: >> swap 512 >> var 512Mb >> home 1G >> usr the space that's left. > > You also need a root (/) partition. It doesn't need to be very large > (256-512MB should be plenty). Yes of course, I forgot to mention that. My best, - Bjarki B > >> 4. Download nvidia driver and install in Linux >> >> I know I can make a boot disk to start Linux, but I would >> like to have the >> user choose if he wants to boot to Linux or Win XP when the >> computer is >> started. Does this require installation of Lilo? Is it >> possible that it will >> mess up the boot information for XP? > > Install lilo to the MBR, and during the installation, you should see dos > (Win XP) as a boot option. You can choose which one you want to boot to by > default. > >> >> I remember once I copied the vmlinuz file to a Win98 >> partition and I made a >> little dos startup utility that let you choose which OS you wanted to >> startup from. If the choice was linux then the vmlinuz file >> was executed. >> Can I do something similar with Win XP? > > Yes, you can export the vmlinuz file to Win, but it is more complex than > letting lilo do the work. > > Forrest > >> >> Any advice would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> Bjarki Bjorgulfsson > > > > _______________________________________________ > Seawolf-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
