Partitioning for Dual Boot (and whether to Dual Boot)
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Partitioning for Dual Boot (and whether to Dual Boot)
I am getting a new hard drive for my Dell Inspiron 5100. The new drive will be 60 GB and I am considering dual-booting this system. I currently have a VERY full 30GB hard drive for Win XP only, so on my new system, I'll probably want about 40 for Win XP. Is it reasonable to attempt to dual boot on this new hard drive? I'm also considering just leaving a few GB as fat32 and using Knoppix to do linux-related tasks. Thoughts?
Hi,
I have been a solid Linux user for years now, Windows has long gone. The main problem I had and too some degree still have is, like it or not Windows has the masses (for now) and finding software thats compatible with Linux is still a chore. Then theres the added problem of wether its for your distro or not. I no longer have the choice anymore as Fedora destroyed any chance of Windows going back on. If I could I would honestly dual boot just for convienience sake.
If one is going to dual boot (which I am doing successfully with FC3) I prefer, rather than giving most of the hard drive over to the monster, giving 15-20GB to each OS, and 20-30 as a fat32 partition, which can be accessed from both OSes, and where the bulk of files (apart from OS-specific programs) are stored.
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