Hello all,

I will be installing RedHat and Win XP on the same hard drive on a laptop. I
was wondering if you could give me some good advice before I start.

Here are the specs for the laptop:

Dell Inspiron 8100
1.2 GHz PIII
24x CD-ROM
Floppy
10/100 internal ethernet network card and modem
30 GB HD
256 MB RAM
Nvidia Graphic Card that needs a Linux driver from the nvidia website.


Here is what I'm going to do:

1. Partition drive (Probaby with Fdisk or with the XP installation disk)
2. Install XP on first partition
3. Install Linux on second partition with the following partitions:
swap 512
var 512Mb
home 1G
usr the space that's left.
4. Download nvidia driver and install in Linux

I know I can make a boot disk to start Linux, but i would like to have the
user choose if he wants to boot to Linux or Win XP when the computer is
started. Does this require installation of Lilo? Is it possible that it will
mess up the boot information for XP?

I remember once I copied the vmlinuz file to a Win98 partition and I made a
little dos startup utility that let you choose which OS you wanted to
startup from. If the choice was linux then the vmlinuz file was executed.
Can I do something similar with Win XP?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Bjarki Bjorgulfsson





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