On 8/30/06, Charles Curley <charlescurley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:07:55PM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Paul Smith wrote: > >On 8/30/06, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>I'm about to add an 80G sata second drive to a Dell 2.8G XP computer > > I assume the present drive is entirely formatted as a Windows partition, > it's a factory install? Probably. But easy enough to check: fdisk -l /dev/hda > > That's why I elected to use a second drive for Linux. The existing > drive is 80G and 10G would be more than enough for XP which gets little > use ... Actually, you can get XP and Linux to cohabit on the same drive by shrinking XP's NTFS partition(s). For the gory details of how I did it, see http://www.charlescurley.com/Lenovo.R51.html. As for grub, I wasn't sure how to have grub boot XP, so I installed it on the Linux boot partition, and have Linux as the default in XP's ntdetect.com.
There is algo another way, maybe a more difficult one, you can download Ubuntu Live CD www.ubuntu.com install it on you system (Ubuntu itself make room for him in the NTFS partition) after you have it working install FC5 on the Ubuntu partition. regards, Guillermo.
