Hi All,

I have a system with functional installation of Redhat9 on an 80 gig HD. Through a new project I need to get windows XP installed on this machine and would like to do it without trashing my RH9 Install.

I have a separate hard drive to do this but am a little nervous about this as most of the posts on this forum recommend installing WinXP and then Linux to get a dual boot system.

So to summarise :

HD1 -- Current install of RH9 (would like to preserve)
HD2 -- desired location of WINXP

If anyone has successfully achieved such an install, I would very much like to hear how you did it!

Thanks,

sP1v

when u install win XP it will clean the bootloader
so u just need to reinstall the bootloader after u install WIN XP

regards

Win XP will not let me install without reformatting the Master HD.....

It seems to want to have the Master harddrive (where my redhat install currently is) formatted into a Windoze comaptible file system even though the second HD where I intend to install it partitioned ( primary) and formatted (NTFS).

Any ideas?

-sP1v

ok, unplug your linux drive install XP as if it were master, then hook up your linux drive again, and update/reinstall your boot loader.

make sure your grub.conf you have to add this part
type exactly this:

title windows
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1 , 0)
chainloader +1

that lets the bootloader know that the windows partition is on the second harddrive.