Mandrake to Fedora Core 3 on Dual Boot
I've had a dual boot with Mandrake Linux 10 and Win Xp Pro for a while and some of my friends have been prompting me to change my linux distro to the well known Fedora Core.
I've got one 120 Gig Hardrive that I originally partitioned and installed Xp Pro (100gigs) and Mandrake Linux(20 gigs). I have Lilo as my boot manager and it lets me pick between the different options, and defaults to Win Xp. One thing I really don't want to do is to completely screw up my windows partition so is there any way I can mess up while doing this. If someone can post up some instructions on how they did it or any help at all it will be appreciated. Thanks, Chenu :Pengy: |
During the Fedora installation process, you will be asked how you want to partition the drive and one of the choices will be to remove all existing Linux partitions. I usually use this option when doing a reinstall.
However, this completely erases all data (files, preferences, everything). You can also reinstall the bootloader which is also part of the install process. Hope this helps, write back if it didn't. |
Booting XP - MDK10 - FC3
I am booting the above thru a 3rd party Boot Mng. (System Commander) in diferent versions for some years now & have had no problems booting into any of them.
For this type of experimentation with Op systems I would recommend the 3rd party option. There are a number of boot managers which will do the job. Just search google "boot manager". It saves a lot of fuss & bother & protects your other bootable partitions from corruption. Just my HO. |
heres one for starters, http://gag.sourceforge.net , even I installed it, it's ez.
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