Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Luis Mendes wrote:
> > I am about to install Woody in my new Toshiba 1800-314 which came > > with a copy of WinXp Home Edition installed. In the past I had linux > > coexisting with different flavours of Windows (3.11, 95, 98) but > > never with XP. I am a bit worried because after a search I got > > conflicting views on how easy it is to get linux coexisting with XP. > > As anyone in this list tried it sucssefuly? One other related issue > > is that XP comes installed in a WIN32 filesystem but I can convert > > it to NTFS. Should I do this? will Linux be able to see my XP > > partition in an NTFS filesystem. > I haven't tried myself, I'll start today or tomorrow the effort, but > I've seen people doing it. All of them told me to remove windows and > partition first, because otherwise you'll never get it back on the > move. I have installed it successfully together with WinXP using NTFS. I didn't remove the NTFS partition first. I used Partition Magic to size the partition down. Then I added two linux partitons (one swap, one normal) after the NTFS one. Considering multi-boot, I'm using a two-stage booting. First the NT boot loader gives the option between "Debian GNU/Linux" and "Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition". If I select Linux, then GRUB gets loaded and presents me with the Linux boot loader menu. This way I can recompile kernels without having to adjust anything under Windows XP. In order to do this, install GRUB into your Linux partition. Copy the first 512 bytes to a file and place it inside C:\bootlinx.bin or similar. Add an entry to C:\boot.ini to load that file. You can't do it the other way round (i.e. using GRUB to boot WinXP), as GRUB can't read NTFS (AFAICT). Hope this helps a bit. Greetings, Stefan. -- Stefan Bellon * <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * <http://www.sbellon.de/> PGP 2 and OpenPGP keys available from my home page
