On Tuesday 30 November 2004 10:56, Lotsa Cabo wrote: > > If I want to partition the free space and install FC3, would I be in > > store for any of the gotchas the other dual-boot WinXP folks are dealing > > with? > > I don't have any issues on my laptop. Just delete the FAT32 partition and > make linux and swap partitions. You'll want at least 2 linux partitions a > / and /boot besides of course the swap. > > Just overwirte the MBR and during the install add XP to the grub config. > > > --> Cool, but why would I be deleting the FAT32 partition? As I mentioned, > it contains the paging file for WinXP. Basically, there is 15GB in the > middle of the two partitions that I was hoping on using. I didn't understand that the FAT32 was your XP swap, leave it alone then and use the free space on the drive for your linux partitions.
