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Author: Nathan England
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Subject: XP/Linux dual boot
That's good to know!
But how did you do it?
Did you set the partitions first using a partition editor?
Future reference, and the rest of us might be interested.

nathan


Am Dienstag 11 Juni 2002 09:15 vormittags schrieb Richard L. Proctor:
> On Tuesday 11 June 2002 8:41 am, Nathan England wrote:
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> > I would install XP in a fat32 partition. Don't use NTFS.
> > As far as I know, you can't modify the fat32 partition that XP is on, or
> > it will break it's crc consistency and it won't boot.
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> > I don't know if that means the partition table in general or not.
> > You might try getting a copy of partition magic 7 and use that.
> > If you don't have it, I can loan you a copy of the rescue disks.
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> > nathan
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> I use XP and SuSE 8.0 Professional and have Win XP using NTFS on half the
> drive and SuSE on the other half and as a dual boot system. Works fine!!