Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Michael Garcia Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: GNU in XP Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:58:33 +1000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: c210-49-140-38.kelvn1.qld.optusnet.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Hi Guys, This is my setup, it works perfectly, abit tricky to setup. but its worth it! Primary ntfs XP Primary fat32 Win98 Primary Linux Extended Fat32 Fat32 Fat32... Win98 cant see ntfs so it thinks its C: all the time XP doesnt care about the second fat32 primary I use fedora with lilo as my bootloader (not part of fedora :( ), I'm sure grub works just as well tho. If you dont have linux there are windows programs out there that can partition your harddrive like this and create a bootloader too Cheers Mike Jon Prestidge wrote: > I almost made a dual boot system with win 98 to run an old version of Easy > CD Creator as well as the GNU stuff, but when I looked into it you have to > it I found you have to install windows XP last....so that would have ment > having to reinstall XP and I didn't fancy reloading all the apps and setting > all those prefrences etc. Oh well I managed to get everything working ... > well, working enough. > > Jon > >