Hi,
Im planning to install slackware 10.2..I already have winxp and FC4 on my machine.

I heard..slackware uses LILO..Would this cause a problem..

I was planning on making my machine use GRUB to bring up the menu to boot any one of the three OS's: XP or FC4 or SLACKWARE


Thanks
Danish

You can boot other OS's with lilo as with Grub. Grub is included in /extra folder in slackware discs so you can install it easily if you want to.

Thanks for that information.

Iv got a 80GB hard drive: 40GB to XP and 40GB to FC4..

I was planning on taking out 10GB from FC4. Can I take out this 10GB by not formatting the whole FC4 OS.

If, this is possible, I was wondering: Can I use the grub of FC4..and use this GRUB to enter the information of where slackware 10.2 is, so that I dont need to install GRUB again...


Please advise

Thanks
Danish

and as u had quoted..if i use the grub in /extra folder..How would I enter the information of where do I have XP and FC4...

If you already have FC4 booting with GRUB, just could just use that to boot Slackware also.
Lot of trouble (and risk) to resize partitions.though.
I used to have a distro that would install to your XP partition and use ntldr to boot GRUB which booted (AmigoXP)Linux.

If I do it your way..I would have to add a new HARD DRIVE?

Thanks
Danish

Afraid so. You could search for posts that deal with resizing partitions. Resizing is quite risky, but there are other ways.
What kind of filesystem do you have for FC4, how much disk space is used and how much free space do you have on your XP partition?
If all the data from FC4 will fit in the free space of the XP partition, you could create an image of the FC4 filesystem within the XP partition and then destroy the FC4 partition, create new partitions in that space, copy the data back for FC4 and have free partition for Slack.

If I recall the Fedora might use LVM-partitions by default and resizing them is quite easy and almost troublefree, as long as you don't shrink mounted partition as I did... ended up reinstalling OS

Just boot from some liveCD with lvm-support and issue the shinking commands found in here.