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[Guest]

Help. Im trying to run windows xp for personal use and linux for business development. If none of u got offended by this post i would greatly appreciate it. I installed windows xp pro and Fedora Core 1 (linux) on seperate partitions. I can only boot with windows xp. does anyone out there know how to establish a dual boot environment
by the way, windows xp doesn't see the partitions that are used by linux, why?

 

[Patti MacLeod]

Hi Silver Soul,

Not having toyed much with Linux distros, about all I can offer is that when
you installed Fedora Core, the Linux bootloader (LILO or Grub) should have
detected both OS installations and configured itself to offer you the choice
of OS at startup. WINXP's boot manager cannot do this, as it doesn't
recognize the Linux partition's file system (Linux, however, does recognize
Windows' file systems).

You might do better at finding a solution if you do a search/post a question
here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&group=comp.os.li
nux

or here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&group=comp.os.li
nux.setup

or maybe poke around the FAQs etc., at these sites:
http://fedora.redhat.com/

http://www.fedora.us/


Regards,

Patti MacLeod
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

Help. Im trying to run windows xp for personal use and linux for business

development. If none of u got offended by this post i would greatly
appreciate it. I installed windows xp pro and Fedora Core 1 (linux) on
seperate partitions. I can only boot with windows xp. does anyone out there
know how to establish a dual boot environment?

by the way, windows xp doesn't see the partitions that are used by linux,

why?

 

[Guest]

thx for your help, but it did configure it and windows hogs the start up either way

 

[Patti MacLeod]

You're welcome for the help (not that I could provide much <g>). The only
time I toyed with Linux was using Mandrake 8, and I was using BootMagic at
the time for a boot manager, so I'm totally in the dark as far as using
Linux's boot managers. Sorry I can't be of more help.


Regards,

Patti MacLeod
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

 

[Pavel A.]

Help. Im trying to run windows xp for personal use and linux for business development. If none of u got offended by

this post i would greatly appreciate it. I installed windows xp pro and Fedora Core 1 (linux) on seperate partitions. I
can only boot with windows xp. does anyone out there know how to establish a dual boot environment?

by the way, windows xp doesn't see the partitions that are used by linux, why?

Have you heard about VMware? Would it make sense for you?

- PA

 

[Michael Stevens]

Help. Im trying to run windows xp for personal use and linux for
business development. If none of u got offended by this post i would
greatly appreciate it. I installed windows xp pro and Fedora Core 1
(linux) on seperate partitions. I can only boot with windows xp. does
anyone out there know how to establish a dual boot environment? by
the way, windows xp doesn't see the partitions that are used by
linux, why?

You didn't say in what order you installed the two OS, but it should be XP
then Linux. You should probably use bootmanager software, or choose to boot
Linux by floppy.
Linux can't read the NTFS file system in a dual boot configuration.
--

Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP
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http://michaelstevenstech.com
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