Tate Belden wrote:
Earl Needham wrote:
I got Fedora downloaded last night, and burned to CD this
morning. Got a quick question -- does it support dual-booting? I
took a quick look, but then aborted when it seemed hell-bent on
installing on the whole partition!
7 3
Earl
Oh yea - it sure will. I've got 3 dual boot systems (XP/F7) running now.
The trick is to install Windows first, then Fedora. Fedora's installer
- anaconda - is smart enough to recognize there's an existing OS on
the drive and not kill it - s'long as you've choosen to install Fedora
into free space! MS' products aren't quite so tolerant. Their
bootloader will wipe out whatever is already on the drive (such as
lilo or grub) and install it's own bootloader. Leaving your *nix
systems out in the breeze.
Now, since each OS will want it's own partition space, you have to
plan ahead and leave enough of the drive un-partitioned when you
install Windows or use some tool to re-size the NTFS partition to make
free space for Fedora. I use the gparted live CD - works great! The
systemrescue_cd has qt_parted and if you've a copy, Partition Magic
does well too. I Just did an HP nx7400 laptop today. (120GB drive, 20
for Windows, the rest for Fedora).
Anaconda will install grub (the boot loader) to the drive's MBR for
you. All you have to do later on is go back and edit
/boot/grub/grub.conf and change the label form 'other' to "Windows".
Eh, you could leave it as 'other' - it'll work. Just isn't as helpful.
Or you can edit it during the install. You can also chose during the
install if you want "other" or F7 to boot by default.
Steve/WM5Z
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