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Old 15th June 2004, 04:33 AM
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FC2+XP Dual Tutorial?

Well, I'd like to start out saying that I roamed into the Fedora Core realm blindly without research, and downloaded the 4.1GB DVD copy to install, and the DVD actually works, so yay for me!

Anyways, long story short, I downloaded Fedora Core 2, verified it, installed windows xp (I tried to make it have a 50mb gap before it to put my /boot partition on, but Mr. Billy Gates said "Nono, you can't do this! Windows XP rules and must be put first!"), so I listened to Mr. Billy and made him a 20GB NTFS partition, and another 20GB partition for sharing files. Then I installed yadeyadeyade, whoopededoo, it works. So I go to install Fedora, it gives me a few errors during the install, I install grub, it warns me about overwriting (I figured Microsoft must die someday, so why not start today, and overwrite it?), and then for some reason, it didn't detect DOS. So I just ignored it and continued. Then when I booted, I tried to add it in manually but it gives me a 0xf error when I do so. I can boot into fedora, but I need XP in order to get my ACX100 card working with it, so I don't have to waste a CD on the drivers.

A step-by-step tutorial would be nice. And oh yes, I've got no problem with starting clean, I didn't have anything to save from my last install.

Thanks!
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Old 22nd June 2004, 01:04 PM
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Making a tutorial about it would be very short 'cause it's really not much to say, I mean, what you would have to do is:

The easy way:

1. Install Windows

2. Install Linux,

a. choose to install GRUB on the MBR (this will overwrite the Windows' MBR and you'll be able to boot Windows or Linux from GRUB)

b. choose to install GRUB on the first track of the Linux partition if you don't want to overwrite the original MBR, but you have to install GRUB on a floppy disk in order to boot Linux from that floppy disk. With this way you don't overwrite the MBR but GRUB will not boot Windows.

The hard way:

You can also install Linux first and then Windows.
Then you would have to install GRUB again on the MBR
Then, you would have to edit the grub.conf in order to boot Windows from GRUB.

For more info http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...=&threadid=975
about editing the grub.conf http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...=&threadid=996
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