On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 17:10, Stephane Dellacherie wrote:
Hello,
I have previously installed FC2 by giving 80% of my
hard drive to Linux. Then, I would like to format the
remaining part of the hard drive (i.e. the remaining
20 %) with fat32 system to install a windowsXP.
Indeed, the windows XP that was "given" with my laptop
refuses to be installed on the remaining part of my
hard drive (cf. the remaining 20 %). It says that
there are to many partitions !!!
And Microsoft refuses (of course !!!!!) to give any
advice despite I was obliged to buy a winXP license !
That is why I think a solution would bet to previously
format the remaining 20 % of my hard drive from the
linux system with the fat32 system before trying to
instal windowsXP.
Thank for your advice !
Stéph
AFAIK I do not believe it possible to install XP in an extended
partition.
What most do is reserve the first partition on the drive for XP and
install Linux on the rest of the drive. Also, with everything I have
heard or seen discussed, XP needs to be installed first, then install
Linux.