[Novalug] Insalling partition for other O/S after installing Windoze XP

[Michael Bower]

I was going to let some of the more experienced answer this but then thought "If I can do this, anybody can."

Yes, you can do that.  I do it all the time.  IIRC, though, the watch word is that you want to install the Windoze OS's first.

I currently have a machine running Windows XP, Windows Beta (RC) and Mandriva.  The default through LILO (or is it GRUB) is to Mandriva.  However, if I select the Windows OS, it will let me select between XP and Vista (two step boot).

At one time I built a box that booted Windows XP, Windows 2000, and two Linux releases.



-----Original Message-----
>From: James Darlack <jmdarlack at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Nov 8, 2006 8:33 AM
>To: Northern Virginia Linux User's Group <novalug at calypso.tux.org>
>Subject: [Novalug] Insalling partition for other O/S after installing	Windoze XP
>
>Hi LUGnuts,
>
>Im enjoying the email regarding Linux.  I have been
>away from the joy of Linux for a while, but now Im
>back, and loving it.
>
>I have an HP recent vintage laptop with XP installed. 
>It has dual 100 gig hard drives.  Im interested in
>making it dual boot with Linux running on it.
>
>The questions are, can I install Linux to run in it
>now, after XP was installed??
>
>Can I run Linux from the second hard drive, which is
>more for data storage?
>
>Can I install Linux and expect that XP will not be
>effected?  There isnt that much on my XP, however, I
>dont want to re-install it all unless I have to.
>
>Thanks,
>Jim
>
>
>
> 
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