At 23:47 10/6/2004 -0400, you wrote:
Good news: Installation was very impressive overall. Straightforward and let me set my video card and sound card and made a nice GUI when all was said and done
Oddity: I had made a small 532mb partition at the beginning of the drive to try and make a 'save to disk' partition. I think WinXP had put some files there, and it wouldn't have worked in the long run anyway. During the setup, I was strongly encouraged to mark a partition for swap, and tried to use that 532mb partition.
FC2 installed cleanly... Except that WinXP would no longer boot :-/
Ok, probably my fault.
I am now reinstalling WinXP. I have found the Dell Utility to make a "Save to Disk" (S2D) partition which was designed to work with Redhat:
Red Hat Linux 6.2 & 7.0 Suspend to Disk Util for Dell Notebook systems [Redhat Linux 6.2 & 7.0 Version 1.1.i386]
So I'm going to try this again. My question are these:
1) Do I need a separate swap partition? [512mb ram] - what size should it be? - how/when do I create it? During the installation process?
2) Will the save-to-disk partition work with FC2? [I know there are no guarantees in life, but...]
3) I will probably install FreeBSD in a 3rd partition. - Any suggestion as to whether I should install FBSD before or after FC2? - Can FBSD and FC2 share the same swap partition? - Can FBSD and FC2 share the same S2D partition?
TjL
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Everything you need to know about dual boot using FC2 is here: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00908.html That´s the fix for XP no longer booting.
