Looking for some help and advise.  Is it possible to have both Windows
XP Pro and Red Hat Linux 9 on the same PC?  If so can someone give me a
little insight on how to do it.

Thanks in advance.

Wayne K. Woytowich

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Wayne K. Woytowich wrote:
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> Looking for some help and advise.  Is it possible to have both Windows
> XP Pro and Red Hat Linux 9 on the same PC?  If so can someone give me a
> little insight on how to do it.


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Wayne K. Woytowich wrote:
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> Looking for some help and advise.  Is it possible to have both Windows
> XP Pro and Red Hat Linux 9 on the same PC?  If so can someone give me a
> little insight on how to do it.


Hi, Wayne:

It was pretty easy, actually.  Since I have an OEM version of XP Pro
that took over despite efforts to partition my first drive, I bought a
second hard drive and put RH9 on that.  I have two partitions on the
second drive, one for RH and one FAT32 to share data between Win and
Linux.

There were some configuration/permissions issues with the FAT32
partition which were resolved by editing the fstab file.

The only problem I have now is that I have a 80 MB HDD with WinXP on it
gathering dust, because I hardly use it anymore.

Tam

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Wayne K. Woytowich wrote:
quote:

> Looking for some help and advise.  Is it possible to have both Windows
> XP Pro and Red Hat Linux 9 on the same PC?  If so can someone give me a
> little insight on how to do it.


http://groups.google.com/groups? as...0boot%22


--
Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com

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Wayne K. Woytowich wrote:
quote:

> Looking for some help and advise.  Is it possible to have both Windows
> XP Pro and Red Hat Linux 9 on the same PC?  If so can someone give me a
> little insight on how to do it.


Hi, Wayne:

It was pretty easy, actually.  Since I have an OEM version of XP Pro
that took over despite efforts to partition my first drive, I bought a
second hard drive and put RH9 on that.  I have two partitions on the
second drive, one for RH and one FAT32 to share data between Win and
Linux.

There were some configuration/permissions issues with the FAT32
partition which were resolved by editing the fstab file.

The only problem I have now is that I have a 80 MB HDD with WinXP on it
gathering dust, because I hardly use it anymore.

Tam

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Wayne K. Woytowich wrote:
quote:

> Looking for some help and advise.  Is it possible to have both Windows
> XP Pro and Red Hat Linux 9 on the same PC?  If so can someone give me a
> little insight on how to do it.


You need to install microsoft windows first, do a manual partition first, so
that you can decide the size that microsoft windows is allowed to use.

Two hours later you can start installing RedHat, here you can partition the
rest of the hraddrive. You may need to do some "hacking" to get the grub to
allow you to boot microsoft windows-xp, but that you can easilly find more
info by making a search for "grub windows xp" at google.

When you need to reinstall microsoft windows (think thats needed to be done
each second month) you will need to boot from the bootdisk for RedHat or use
the rescue mode from the RedHat Cd1 and issue a 'grub-install' to regain gru
b
as boot manager.


//Aho

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Wayne K. Woytowich wrote:
quote:

> Looking for some help and advise.  Is it possible to have both Windows
> XP Pro and Red Hat Linux 9 on the same PC?  If so can someone give me a
> little insight on how to do it.


You need to install microsoft windows first, do a manual partition first, so
that you can decide the size that microsoft windows is allowed to use.

Two hours later you can start installing RedHat, here you can partition the
rest of the hraddrive. You may need to do some "hacking" to get the grub to
allow you to boot microsoft windows-xp, but that you can easilly find more
info by making a search for "grub windows xp" at google.

When you need to reinstall microsoft windows (think thats needed to be done
each second month) you will need to boot from the bootdisk for RedHat or use
the rescue mode from the RedHat Cd1 and issue a 'grub-install' to regain gru
b
as boot manager.


//Aho

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Wayne K. Woytowich wrote:
quote:

> Looking for some help and advise.  Is it possible to have both Windows
> XP Pro and Red Hat Linux 9 on the same PC?  If so can someone give me a
> little insight on how to do it.


http://groups.google.com/groups? as...0boot%22


--
Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com

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Wayne K. Woytowich wrote:
quote:

> Looking for some help and advise.  Is it possible to have both Windows
> XP Pro and Red Hat Linux 9 on the same PC?  If so can someone give me a
> little insight on how to do it.


Hi, Wayne:

It was pretty easy, actually.  Since I have an OEM version of XP Pro
that took over despite efforts to partition my first drive, I bought a
second hard drive and put RH9 on that.  I have two partitions on the
second drive, one for RH and one FAT32 to share data between Win and
Linux.

There were some configuration/permissions issues with the FAT32
partition which were resolved by editing the fstab file.

The only problem I have now is that I have a 80 MB HDD with WinXP on it
gathering dust, because I hardly use it anymore.

Tam

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Wayne K. Woytowich wrote:
quote:

> Looking for some help and advise.  Is it possible to have both Windows
> XP Pro and Red Hat Linux 9 on the same PC?  If so can someone give me a
> little insight on how to do it.


You need to install microsoft windows first, do a manual partition first, so
that you can decide the size that microsoft windows is allowed to use.

Two hours later you can start installing RedHat, here you can partition the
rest of the hraddrive. You may need to do some "hacking" to get the grub to
allow you to boot microsoft windows-xp, but that you can easilly find more
info by making a search for "grub windows xp" at google.

When you need to reinstall microsoft windows (think thats needed to be done
each second month) you will need to boot from the bootdisk for RedHat or use
the rescue mode from the RedHat Cd1 and issue a 'grub-install' to regain gru
b
as boot manager.


//Aho

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