I m reading so many people's treads that are having issues with Windows and linux...get the best of both worlds, dual boot you machines..If done properly when PC starts you will have a choice to load either Windows or linux....
........INSTRUCTIONS...........................................................................
First load Windows preferably on a Fat 32 partition,that way you'll be able to access that drive and all of its contents from Linux with no problems...
Leave at least 4 to 8 Gigs free on the disk partition for Linux, more if you like. If Windows is already installed, use a utility such as Partition Magic 7.0 (its easy, takes 7 min.) to resize your existing hard drive.
......Now Linux, Redhat 9.0 works well with Win XP........................
change your Bios to boot from CDROM, insert RH install CD in CDROM and restart the PC..
when RH ask for partition choice choose AUTOMATICALLY PARTITION (easiest for the newbies)
Choose to KEEP EXISTING PART IONS
Choose Grub Loader
Make sure you choose HDA2 (not the first HDA, it got Windows)
When it shows the hda's @ the bottom choose to modify hda1 and relabel it Win 98..XP or....? This is not necessary but when PC boots it will give you the choice or Red Hat or Windows, if you don't choose this step it will say Red Hat and DOS
choose to KEEP EXISTING MBR !!!!
at the bottom you will see both hda's w/ a check box by them, MAKE SURE LINUX IS CHECKED DEFAULT !!!!!! (CONT>>)
