On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 05:05:30PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, May 11, 2005 at 08:51:08AM -0700, Bob Scofield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Tuesday 10 May 2005 22:06, Bill Kendrick wrote: > > > Here's one final question. As part of my missionary work I'm taking > > my SuSE CD's. But it just dawned on me that while I have set up dual > > boot systems several times in the past, it has always been with > > Windows 98. Are there any special difficulties in setting up a dual > > boot with XP? > > If anything, it's a tad easier. Win9x requires being installed on the > first partition of your primary master IDE drive. NT/2K/XP/2K+3 don't > have this restriction. Technically it's possible to handle 9X by using > your bootloader to fake out the OS into thinking it's where it wants to > be.
Are you certain? I had trouble getting my dual boot to work until I had GRUB swap hda and hdb (where WinXP resides), so that WinXP /thought/ it was on the master IDE drive. Perhaps it's only the partition restriction that has been removed? _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
