I have the following problem: Windows XP is installed on my computer and I want to install Fedora keeping Windows alive (bootable). Thanks and sorry for my bad English.
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 05:09:49PM +0400, isad ilexa17 wrote:
I have the following problem: Windows XP is installed on my computer and I want to install Fedora keeping Windows alive (bootable). Thanks and sorry for my bad English.
This is not a difficult problem to solve, fortunately! :-) You simply need to have sufficient free space in the partition itself, or on the hard disk outside that partition. Most people find themselves in the first situation. You may find things work best if you go to your Control Panel > Administration Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management, and analyze and defragment your partition first. I'm afraid help with Windows is outside this list's topic, but the procedure should be a fairly simple point-and-click operation.
Once you've done that, during the Fedora installation, you can edit the existing Windows XP partition on your disk during the disk partitioning step. Most people choose "Custom setup" for the disk partitioning to get into the partition editing screen. Click the checkbox to resize the existing Windows partition to leave enough space for Fedora. Then establish partitions for the Fedora installation. You can find more information about disk partitioning here:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/ch-disk-partitioning.ht...
I recommend reading all of Chapter 12, but especially these sections:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-partitioning-general... http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-partitioning-advice....
Fedora automatically detects your Windows XP installation and sets up a dual-boot configuration for you. When you boot your computer, you are able to choose between booting Fedora or Windows by interrupting the GRUB boot screen with any key.
At 09:32 AM 10/2/2008, Paul W. Frields wrote:
Fedora automatically detects your Windows XP installation and sets up a dual-boot configuration for you. When you boot your computer, you are able to choose between booting Fedora or Windows by interrupting the GRUB boot screen with any key.
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Good afternoon, Paul.
My situation is related but different. I have a Fedora 9 bootable drive, and a WinXP bootable drive, both of which were created independently, i.e. when Fedora was installed the Windows disk wasn't installed so Fedora couldn't see it and configure a dual boot.
So, how do I set up a dual boot after the fact?
I used to know how to do that with lilo (but, if you asked me now, I'd never remember), but I never did it with grub.
Thanks...
--- On Tue, 10/7/08, Eric spamsink@scoot.netis.com wrote:
From: Eric spamsink@scoot.netis.com Subject: Followup Re: Windows XP & Fedora on one computer To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 6:48 PM At 09:32 AM 10/2/2008, Paul W. Frields wrote:
Fedora automatically detects your Windows XP
installation and sets up
a dual-boot configuration for you. When you boot your
computer, you
are able to choose between booting Fedora or Windows by
interrupting
the GRUB boot screen with any key.
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Good afternoon, Paul.
My situation is related but different. I have a Fedora 9 bootable drive, and a WinXP bootable drive, both of which were created independently, i.e. when Fedora was installed the Windows disk wasn't installed so Fedora couldn't see it and configure a dual boot.
So, how do I set up a dual boot after the fact?
I used to know how to do that with lilo (but, if you asked me now, I'd never remember), but I never did it with grub.
Thanks...
many great articles that saved my bacon:
www.ask.com search "Fedora grub install"
I have these articles piled up here but why waste email space
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Eric wrote:
My situation is related but different. I have a Fedora 9 bootable drive, and a WinXP bootable drive, both of which were created independently, i.e. when Fedora was installed the Windows disk wasn't installed so Fedora couldn't see it and configure a dual boot.
So, how do I set up a dual boot after the fact?
I used to know how to do that with lilo (but, if you asked me now, I'd never remember), but I never did it with grub.
Thanks...
Something on the order of:
Title winXP root (hd0) map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) chainloader +1
If the XP drive is the first drive, skip the map commands. They are there so that the BIOS mapping of the XP drive matches the matches the mapping from when XP was installed. This setup expects that the MBR of the XP drive is still intact. If not, change the root to the XP partition.
Mikkel