[Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

[Steve Friis]

Tate Belden wrote:
> Earl Needham wrote:
>         I got Fedora downloaded last night, and burned to CD this
>> morning.  Got a quick question -- does it support dual-booting?  I 
>> took a quick look, but then aborted when it seemed hell-bent on 
>> installing on the whole partition!
>>
>>         7 3
>>         Earl
>>
>
> Oh yea - it sure will. I've got 3 dual boot systems (XP/F7) running now.
>
> The trick is to install Windows first, then Fedora. Fedora's installer 
> - anaconda - is smart enough to recognize there's an existing OS on 
> the drive and not kill it - s'long as you've choosen to install Fedora 
> into free space! MS' products aren't quite so tolerant. Their 
> bootloader will wipe out whatever is already on the drive (such as 
> lilo or grub) and install it's own bootloader. Leaving your *nix 
> systems out in the breeze.
>
> Now, since each OS will want it's own partition space, you have to 
> plan ahead and leave enough of the drive un-partitioned when you 
> install Windows or use some tool to re-size the NTFS partition to make 
> free space for Fedora. I use the gparted live CD - works great! The 
> systemrescue_cd has qt_parted and if you've a copy, Partition Magic 
> does well too. I Just did an HP nx7400 laptop today. (120GB drive, 20 
> for Windows, the rest for Fedora).
>
> Anaconda will install grub (the boot loader) to the drive's MBR for 
> you. All you have to do later on is go back and edit 
> /boot/grub/grub.conf and change the label form 'other' to "Windows". 
> Eh, you could leave it as 'other' - it'll work. Just isn't as helpful.
Or you can edit it during the install. You can also chose during the 
install if you want "other" or F7 to boot by default.

Steve/WM5Z