On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 23:27 -0700, Alex Aguilar wrote: > Hello! > > > I already have windows XP home edition installed on my pc, > and I am trying to configure my pc to duel boot between windows XP, Guess you mean "dual boot" - although the topic may provoke some dueling! :-) > and Fedora, but first I have to install fedora on a seperate > partition. should this partition be a primary partition, or an > extended one? Not clear if you have already made room for Fedora. One tool is ntfresize. Here's some advice from the CentOS list: > On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 06:10 -0400, ryanag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Here is the process I do it in: > > > > #1: Install WinXP normally. > > #2: Use a special liveCD http://www.sysresccd.org/ to shrink the NTFS > > partition. > > #3: Use the same liveCD to format the empty space created from #2 with > > ext3. > > #4: Install CentOS telling it to remove all linux partitions (it will > > only touch the ext3 created in #3). > > Could also use a more general live-CD distro such as Knoppix to resize and partition. > also I was reading how to install fedore for windows duel boot, and > I ... Know I am aware that in Linux drives hda1-3 are resurved for > primary partitions, while 4 is for a single extended parti! tion, and > 5 on up is for logical drives located with in the extended partition; 4 can also be used for a primary partition if you don't want/need extended, and conversely extended partition does not have to be 4 - can be 2 or 3 as well. As other posters pointed out, shouldn't have to go through all of those contortions - the installer should handle it OK, but I do second the advice about having a FAT32 partition for data sharing. OTOH, a USB memory stick, USB/Firewire drive, or other external storage may serve the same purpose. > but what number should I input into the "x" variable of my commands, > so that I will not erase windows XP, but yet at the same time still > have a fully functional linux operating system? Your windows XP is ALMOST certainly /dev/hda1 (or possibly /dev/sda1), but displaying the partition table with Linux fdisk (after booting from a CD distribution as above) should verify that. Phil
