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Old 08-10-2003, 09:53 PM   #1
mawarsha
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Switching From Mandy to RH & the Bootloader

I have a laptop that is currently Dual Booting Mandrake 9.1 (10GB) & WinXP (30GB). I want to install RH on the 10GB partition. Will I face any issues overwriting (reformatting) the 10GB partition with this different distribution? I had the thought that I would maybe somehow lose the option to boot into WinXP? Right now I am prompted for which OS to boot into and the default is Mandrake.

Thanks for any suggestions...
 
Old 08-10-2003, 10:24 PM   #2
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When you install Red Hat it will create a new bootloader for you. Tell the Red Hat installer that you want to dual boot and you will be OK.
 
  


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