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I have a dell laptop that came with windows 7 pre-installed.
It has 3 partitions.
One ΟΕΜ partition 39mb, one ntfs partition 218.20gb (boot, pagefile, primary), and one recovery ntfs partition 14.65gb (system, active, primary).
Is it possible to make it dual boot windows 7 and linux?(slackware v14.0)
Yes but I highly recommend you read the documentation and make a backup of your data before proceeding. Dual booting with Lilo is a very common and well-documented task.
It recommends to partition using fdisk or cfdisk and then configure lilo boot loader for the dual boot. Have you used these tools before; are you clear on these concepts? If not, do you know how to use man pages? Do you have a specific question/error message that troubles you (or just sort of generally lost)?
I would recommend you do as much reading as possible on this, but also -- if you're familiar with downloading ISOs and burning them to disc -- get yourself a copy of this:
It can not only help you partition your drive (in a pretty easy-to-do visual way) but it can save your system if you muck things up (as I definitely have from time to time).
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