My friend wants to try Linux on his brand new 2.2 Ghz P4. He has a DSL connection to the internet from Manitoba Telecom (our provincial phone company).
He is running Windows XP. Is there anything to watch out for when doing the install? I've installed many many times on a Win98 box but never to an XP machine.
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Every time I install RH (any version) I need to regenerate MBR on my hda. (Put Install floppy for Win95 in fd0/a: then fdisk /mbr)
I download the ISOs to hda (a Windows drive) and install Linux to hdb (a Linux drive)
No fancy foot work on the bootup. Linux is floppy booted; Windows boots from hda/c:
Actually I tried to dual boot but never could get it to work, putting down the failure to the lame brained Compaq BIOS I have on my museum piece box. But that's a blessing in disguise really. Linux can see hda, but Windows can't see hdb/d: so I have a measure of protection there.
~Lys~
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Mel Seder wrote:
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He is running Windows XP. Is there anything to watch out for when doing the install?
Well, if it was me, I'd watch for when it asks if I want to use the whole disk for Linux. I'd say "yes" to that. :-)
Scott
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 08:25:54PM -0700, Mel Seder wrote:
My friend wants to try Linux on his brand new 2.2 Ghz P4. He has a DSL connection to the internet from Manitoba Telecom (our provincial phone company).
He is running Windows XP. Is there anything to watch out for when doing the install? I've installed many many times on a Win98 box but never to an XP machine.
I guess resizing drive C: will require some program, and which one depends on the filesystem it is using. If it is using dynamic partitions, I have no idea what to do.
Lennart Sorensen
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