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Re: Dual Boot With Win XP - Debian First?



On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 01:41:38PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 03:46:50AM -0400, russ421@aol.com wrote:
> > I want to dual boot windows XP and Debian.? I've seen the guides,
> > but they all recommend that users have Windows XP installed first,
> > and then install Debian.? This allows you to set it up with the
> > default Debian installation to use GRUB / etc. and dual boot.?
> 
> Just leave some free space for a FAT/NTFS partition at the beginning
> of the physical drive.

What I actually mean is, create one or more FAT partition for Windows
to take over, then create the remaining partitions for Debian.

Sorry if that wasn't clear earlier!

Kumar
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Kumar Appaiah,
462, Jamuna Hostel,
Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
Chennai - 600 036



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