On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I have managed to go for just under a decade without a Windows machine, but > now I need to have such, and I'd like to add it to an existing machine with > a large enough partition which was used as work area for a project since > shipped. The problem is that while I've put Fedora (and Linux back to SLS > and Slackware on 2.2 kernels) on Windows machines, I haven't done it with > anything else after, Linux has always been "the last OS you'll ever need" > for dual boot. > > I'm not worried about the grub.conf, but the boot sector could be an issue, > I have seen reports that XP with patches and Win7 check the boot sector now > (XP at patch level 3). other than having to rewrite the boot sector, is that > going to be an issue? Any other things I should know? > > -- > Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> ____ I used to have the same concerns. The only problem is that Windows must be installed first. I had WinXP installed in a PC, then installed F11. Clean setup. Later decided to wipe the F11 and used the WinXP "Repair" feature to rewrite the Windows MBR and the system would go back to Windows only. Once Win MBR was intalled and if I decided not to erase the F11 setup, then I'd reinstall GRUB to be back to dual boot. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
