[EzzaB]

hey, i was wondering if there is a way of dual booting windows xp and fedora.

i'm at school and everything there is microsoft, so i still need winxp! i want fedora so i can make a start with the linux platform.

thanks

[bigbmxdave]

im not sure about Fedora. But Mandrake asks you if you want to install LILO (Linux Loader) which is a dual boot program which asks you which OS you want to use when starting the computer. So check if the Distro of linux you have has its own Dual loader. if not try Mandrake.

[macdude425]

Yah, Anaconda (Fedora installer) will let set up GRUB to dual boot Fedora and Windows. I know this because I did it yesterday :-)

[TheRecluse]

just make sure you install windows first, it will take over your bootloader if you do otherwise

[EzzaB]

yeh, i had a problem with grub, i tried it before and it simply didn't load up when i install fedora with windows.

macdude425, could you tell he how you did it in more detail?

[EzzaB]

oh i have a freind who has mandrake, is that better than fedora? which one should i try putting on?

[bigbmxdave]

Mandrake and Fedora are two of the most popular Linux Distro's, as a beginner there isnt really any reason to choose one over the other. ip dip do it tbh.

[m3trj]

Well as long as you've created your partitions beforehand, then you can dual boot both operating systems by installing them each on their own partition. PartitionMagic can do this non-destructively, but I think that some partition managers that come with Linux installers are destructive and will delete your Windows partition if you try to partiton the disk using them. Linux will install a bootloader as well, so that's not a problem.

[TheRecluse]

Originally posted by EzzaB
oh i have a freind who has mandrake, is that better than fedora? which one should i try putting on?

it's all preference... this quiz seems to be pretty accurate with the distro's people like though

http://brustracja.no-ip.org/linux/ch...st.php?lang=en