Will dual boot affect my pc?
 

i'm thinking of installing windows xp and fedora 11 together
will it affect my pc's speed, ram,cpu?

No, not at all.

You have to share hard disk space; divide up your hard disk between windows and linux. (Though of course linux can mount the windows partitions.)

You will have all memory and cpu available of course in whichever you boot into.

happy to hear that
thx guys :)

just a question
i have windows xp already installed
so it's ok right?
i don't have to install fedora first right?

Install Windows first, less complications that way. Give it whatever space you want, and leave the rest as unallocated space.
Just seen your last post as I posted this.
You'll need to defrag and resize your XP partion if it's taking up the whole disk.

so i have no problems
thx :)

You shouldn't have any. Just ask if you need any more details.

Harddisk space - Yes!

Rest everything - Nopes!
:)

linux

i have a problem

i have windows xp installed on my master hard disk
and i have another hard disk
so i entered the windows xp cd just to create partitions in the slave hard disk
after that i installed fedora on one of the slave hd partitions
but when i reboot
i get windows xp
and in windows xp when i press on the hard disk which (should) have fedora
it tells me that it's not formatted, do you want to format it now?
i even dont get a screen which ask me to select xp or fedora
what shall i do?

you must install grub in mbr.. and in normal case you cant see any linux partitions such as ext2, ext3 or ext4 from windows

When you installed Fedora, it should have installed a bootloader---do you recall this step, and what option you chose? A common default is to install the bootloader on the #1 drive but--since you are just getting booted into Windows, this is not what happened.

One option is to boot up from the Linux CD and install the bootloader from there. But first (using the linux CD), run "fdisk -l" in a terminal and post the results here.

If you installed the bootloader to the 2nd drive, then you can maybe boot Fedora by switching the boot order in the BIOS setup.

i did't touch the first hd
not a single option
i made everything on the no 2 hd

now i formated the partition again
i started the installer
it does not give me the partitions
it gives me the whole hard disks

in my situation
i have 2 hard disks:

500gb (using the whole hd)

80gb:
1-60gb (free space)
2-20gb (for fedora)

but on the screen it doesn't show me the partitions
it gives me the whole hard disks

now on the screen im having:

Select the drive(s) to use for installation.
sda 76317 MB ATA WDC WD800BB-00FJ
sdb 476938 MB ATA WDC WD5000AACS-0


and what should i select:
-Use entire drive
-Replace existing Linux System
-Shrink Current System
-Use Free Space
-Create Custom layout

just to remind: i want to install it on the ntfs 20gb partition located in the 80gb hd (sda)

and under it i have

What Drive would you like to boot from?

When you installed Fedora, at the end of the installation it should give you options as to where to install the Grub bootloader. If you don't want to touch the drive with xp on it, you should install Grub to the master boot record of the drive you installed Fedora on. If you do this, you will need to select that drive to boot from in your BIOS during boot.

You can then put an entry in the Grub menu.lst or grub.conf file to boot xp from that drive. You could also add Fedora to your xp bootloader but that is a little more complicated.

Did you reformat the partition you had Fedora on? From xp?