On Wednesday 31 July 2002 13:06, Anand wrote:

> I may be wrong about this... but I beleive that it depends
> on whether the XP is on NTFS or not. My friend installed
> Linux with XP on fat32 without any special precautions
> (like not installing lilo on MBR) and he didn't have any
> problems. I did the same thing with XP on NTFS and ended up
> loosing my windows.

Well, you might be right, I don't know, simply because I have not tried 
it. I can tell you I have done two machines dual booting XP with NTFS 
and Linux (1 machine Mandrake, 1 machine SuSE), and it works fine if 
you install XP first, keep your Linux on hdb, and put lilo in the mbr.

***************************************************
Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional
KDE 2.2.1     KMail 1.3.1
This is a Microsoft-free computer

Bryan S. Tyson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
***************************************************



Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? 
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Reply via email to