[ltp] Dual boot

[Greg Meyer]

On Friday 14 November 2003 10:55 pm, Carl Nygard wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 21:55, Adam wrote:
> > Friday, November 14, 2003, 9:23:59 PM, you wrote:
> > > An awful lot, I'm sure, though the numbers are diminishing along with
> > > Red Hat Linux.  I have Windows XP, Red Hat 9, and slackware 9.1.  I
> > > haven't touched Red Hat for months though, and I rarely use XP.
> > >
> > > Joel
> > >
> > > Adam wrote:
> > >> How many people run Rat Hat 9, and Windows XP on their system?
> >
> > According to different sources I read, they were saying you seemed to
> > need a Partition Magic program to accomplish the task. Is this
> > required?  What I read was too vague. Do you need to spend $70
> > American to get things set up right, leaving two OSs on one drive?
>
> That's the easiest, although there are tricks.  If you haven't booted
> yet, you can boot from a floppy/rescue/knoppix/SuSE-trial and remove a
> secret program which converts FAT->NTFS.  Once that's done,
> repartitioning using installer isn't hard (google for it).
>
> I've heard knoppix has NTFS repartitioning in it's installer, and I
> think I just read that Mandrake 9.2 has NTFS repartitioning as well.
>
You can also do your first boot from the Linux installer, resize the partition 
while it is still FAT32 and then let XP still convert to NTFS on first boot.

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