XP/Linux dual boot

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Author: Richard L. Proctor
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Subject: XP/Linux dual boot
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 1:50 am, Matt wrote:
> So today I went out to Fry's and bought Windows XP, because I need Windows
> for a few things. I installed XP, and all went well. I prodded it for a few
> minutes, then restarted with my SuSE Linux 8.0 CD in. I just went with the
> default settings it gave me. It said it was going to delete the NTFS
> partition, but I'd heard Linux works well with Windows, so I assumed that
> the folks at SuSE knew what they were doing. Apparently I was wrong. Linux
> installed fine, but when I restarted the computer to see if all was OK, I
> found out that it wasn't. Windows shows up as an option in LILO, but it
> merely goes to a black screen with white text that says "Loading
> Windows..." What is it that I did wrong, and what should I do after I fdisk
> it all and start repeating the same process?


Matt,

I install SuSE all the time as a dual boot system and it's one of the few
linux distro's that works flawless. However, I assume when you installed
Windows XP you told XP to format/partition only half the drive?


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Richard L. Proctor
Krystal Computer Services
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