Just did a few of these last night at an installfest for an online class I am teaching. This is a BRIEF overview. Install XP first (I am sure you know this already). Partition Manually .. or use a tool to do it later after XP is all installed. Could use "parted" before starting with XP. Parted would let you create the partitions .. then maybe XP would create/format to NTFS when it starts. Parted comes on the RH9 cds ... not sure about other installs ... and you can boot to the RH9 and go into a rescue mode that lets you use parted to partition the drive. XP Pro is NTFS. If you want to use a Linux tool to repartition the drive use ntfsresize - can also be found as part of a bootable cd (SystemRescueCD http://www.sysresccd.org/ ). No one tried this last night, but I downloaded it and burnt a CD from the ISO ... my laptop did boot from the System Rescue CD. The rescue CD has ntfsresize on it. parted will not work on NTFS (if I read correctly). After you have resized the partition, or created one initially, you are pretty much ready to go with a normal install. The install is pretty straight forward after that. Use the partition tool as you install to create /boot and /swap and / ... usually the install is fairly clear on this. Then ... pick the packages to install and let it go. Hope this generic guidance helps. The key is to get two partitions made before starting the install, or to use a tool to partition the NTFS drive (XP) after the fact. Randy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kraig Jones" <jkjones at tcq.net> To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 12:03 PM Subject: [TCLUG] Dual-boot Windows XP and Linux? > I am in the process of re-installing Windows XP Pro on my son's Dell > laptop. This time around we would like to partition the drive and add > Linux -- though haven't decided yet which distribution (probably either > Debian or Suse). We don't want to wait for the next installfest, so > does anyone have any hints, HOWTOs, gotcha's for doing this? I assume > I'll use GRUB rather than LILO, although my past experience is that LILO > is easier to set up, but that was with Windows 98. > > Thanks for suggestions, > Kraig > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list