[RESOLVED] Dual Boot

[zynder]

I'm not a linux expert so please bear with me.

Is it possible to install both linux and windows xp pro in one HDD. Sort of Dual boot? Is this possible.

If it's possible, how can I make the dual booting?

Educate me thank you!

The reason for this is i dont want to remove xp from my system, I just want to have 2 OS and have time to play around with linux.

[Arty2000]

Check out the link below...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_boot

There's heaps of info about it on the net...

E.g. Google > "dual boot xp linux".

[zynder]

Ok it is possible. Thank you for the reply. I'll find it out myself. Cheers!

[zynder]

Ok I've search the web and I'm confused. I want to dual boot XP and Fedora Core 6 but it's not as easy as it looks (for me). I found an installation guide mostly for the old releases of Fedora not Fedora Core 6.

And I also have a question, How many CD's needed to install Fedora. I've click the download section and found one image only.

Please guide me step by step. Thank you.

[wossname]

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/iso/

That's the full 6 disc set.

[Arty2000]

You might want to check this out...

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/fc6/en/

[zynder]

I have downloaded FC-6-i386-livecd-1.iso. Fedora Core 6 Zod LiveCD 1.

Is this the same with FC-6-i386-disk-1.iso?

If it's the same, then I'll continue downloading the second disk.

[wossname]

If it was the same then it would have the same name. It is not the same.

[TomGibbons]

A Live CD is basically an operating system contained on the CD which runs at boot, without the need to install to the hard drive. It's useful if someone wants to test it out, to see if they like it before they make space on their hard drive for it. But no, this is not the same.

[kregg]

When you insert Fedora, it will give you the option to partition the hard disk yourself or let it take a chunk of free space and let Fedora do its thang. It is better if you do it yourself, but if you're new to partitioning hard disks, then leave it for now.

If you do decide to partition the hard disk, it should usually tell you what it wants in partitions. It's usually a swap partition and a ext2/ext3 partition. The swap partition will act like Windows Virtual Memory feature in windows, and the ext3/ext3 partitions are like NTFS in windows. I have no clue which ext2/ext3 partition to choose out of the two, but the ext3 has got some improvements over the 2nd one. You'll be better off looking at Wikipedia about that and making a decision if you are really bothered.

[zynder]

Thanks for the info guys!

[wossname]

ext2 doesn't have journalling and is slightly faster than ext3 which does have journalling. Its best to go for ext3 generally. ext2 is better for low-spec machines.