On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 20:07, Adam Getchell wrote: > Similar question for an upcoming Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop. It comes with XP > already installed. Will I be able to install RH 7.2 on another partition, > write grub to the bootsector, and have Grub dual boot XP and 7.2? Or do I > need to install Grub/RH 7.2 first?
To answer your question, yes. Assuming you have an available partition to install Red Hat on, the installer will setup GRUB for you, and allow you to provide a label to boot XP with. Now, if you have to repartition like I did, you can install in either order, but it's simpler to reinstall XP first, then linux. The reason is that windows screws up GRUB so you have to fdisk /mbr it to get windows to boot, then you need to boot off your linux boot floopy to reinstall grub before you can boot both again. So, in short anything is possible but the simplest is windows first, then linux, grub in MBR. hth charles _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
