Re: [SLUG] can anyone help me ??

From: Martin C. Messer (marty@redhat.com)
Date: Wed Jul 24 2002 - 10:17:06 EDT


On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 18:38, Bill wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 July 2002 16:16, you wrote:
> > Hello
> > i have recently joined slug and i need help seting up
> > my PC for a dual boot i have a copy of linux
> > redhat7.3 can you help me get started
>
> Casey ... I haven't done a dual-boot in a long time but, IIRC, you can get
> pretty good instructions from the Linux Documentation Project. (Try using the
> google search engine for that term).
>
> IIRC, you first fdisk using Linux, reserving a portion of your hard drive for
> a fat32 partition. Then install Windows. It will only see the fat32 partition
> and be happy to install there. Then install Linux and all should be well.
>
> That's the rough outline. There are other ways of doing it and at least 1,000
> things that can go wrong but this way uses the tools you already own.

Everything Bill says is true, and in addition, here are some Red Hat
Linux 7.3 specific instructions that might help:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/install-guide/ch-x86-dualboot.html

Good luck!

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