Re: Windows XP + Linux
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
>>>>> "Luis" == Luis Mendes <l.mendes@ic.ac.uk> writes:
Luis> Other replies to the list seem to indicate that it shoudl also
Luis> work with LILO. Just in case, where is the XP bootloader located?
I use GRUB, which is more powerful than LILO. If you're worried, you
can put GRUB on a floppy, check that you can boot Windows from
GRUB-on-a-floppy just booting into the XP partition, and then if you
mess things up real bad, you can always go back to your GRUB floppy. Of
course, you'll need to read the GRUB manuals to figure out how things
work.
FWIW, I have Linux, and XP on the same drive on my laptop (IBM
ThinkPad). I didn't encounter any problems, except that XP got
installed on an NTFS partition, so I had to get PartitionMagic to shrink
it. Linux seems to read NTFS partitions fine, except that it's only
root-readable, even if I mount as a normal user. I have a small FAT32
partition that I can use to transfer files, but that's going to be going
away soon, because I don't use XP much.
- --
Hubert Chan <hackerhue@geek.com> - http://www.geocities.com/hubertchan/
PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/71FDA37F
Fingerprint: 6CC5 822D 2E55 494C 81DD 6F2C 6518 54DF 71FD A37F
Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org
iD8DBQE8hovTZRhU33H9o38RAl7TAKCuG4cJf4ipDtBr+N9htjNOyfA/cgCgx6OF
qVQfTonbDog/ek3wUPYIscM=
=O10Z
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Reply to: