Danny,
When I did this I did it the other way around. Put Xp on first. Create an
empty partition (fat32 is best) then install redhat to the empty partition. I
used partition magic as it does resize ntfs partitions non destructively. Then using
you favourite boot manager it should all work. With any version of NT I
have found it wants to be the only OS so put it on first.
Wayne
1/22/2003 8:46:30 AM, Danny Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My girlfriend recently bought a computer, a Compaq Presario 6000,
>and the first thing I tried to do was set it up to dual boot Linux.
>(Though she didn't previously have a computer, she's a programmer who
>uses AIX at work, and was quite excited by the prospect of getting C,
>perl, python, etc. development tools.)
>
>I did a RedHat 8.0 install, repartitioning the 80gig hard drive,
>leaving 50gig for Windows and using the rest for Linux. There were
>some problems -- the modem wasn't detected and I fear it's some kind
>of evil WinModem -- but I got everything basically working.
>
>When I went to reinstall Windows, however, I found that the restore CD
>insisted on reformatting the entire hard drive! Aaarrrgh. Is there
>any way around this? (As far as I can tell, parted and FIPS won't
>resize NTFS partitions -- is there some other way of doing that?)
>And is it worth complaining to Compaq (or the ACCC) about this?
>
>Danny.
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