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. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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