Installing wXP & RH Linux on the same Hard Drive

[Isaac]

I would like to install Windows XP home edition and Red
Hat Linux on the same hard drive. I have only one
partition (dedicated to Windows XP Home. How would I go
about having both Operating Systems on the same hard
drive? If I must make another partition, how would I go
about doing this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards, Isaac

 

[Gordon]

I would like to install Windows XP home edition and Red
Hat Linux on the same hard drive. I have only one
partition (dedicated to Windows XP Home. How would I go
about having both Operating Systems on the same hard
drive? If I must make another partition, how would I go
about doing this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards, Isaac

I think you'll find that RedHat will do the partitioning for you.........

 

[Isaac]

-----Original Message-----


I think you'll find that RedHat will do the partitioning for you.........


.

Just boot from my RedHat install disk and will do
everything for me?

Thank you for your help.

 

[Gordon]

Just boot from my RedHat install disk and will do
everything for me?

Thank you for your help.

yes. It will ask you whether you want to set up the partitions manually,
(there are three, Root, Swap and one other) or whether you want RH to do set
up the default. I BELIEVE what it will do is to ask you about the free space
on the HDD. I'm not totally sure about this as I've always installed on
unformatted disk space. Make a backup of your windows data first, just in
case!

 

[Rob Schneider]

Red Hat provides excellent instructions for how to do this.

I don't recall that Red Hat provides software to change the XP partion.
It might. You have to make free space for Red Hat. Read the
documentation provided by Red Hat. In a PDF file as I recall. I used
Partition Magic to reduce the space used by XP to leave free space for
Red Hat to build it's own partitions.

I now run Linux inside a so-called "virtual machine" created by
Microsoft Virtual PC.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[Steve Nielsen]

RH will not resize partitions, however there is a free Linux-based
utility that will resize NTFS partition in conjunction with using Linux
fdisk (not anything at all like any M$ fdisk) but there is always a risk
of data loss when doing such things, even with 3rd party commercial
products. Here's info on NTFSResize:

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/man/ntfsresize.html

You'd be better off and keep your life simple by adding a second hard
disk and installing Linux to it.

Steve