[lug] Dual Boot with Windows XP

[Greg Smith]

Or possibly a backup of XP.   I believe HP sets up their boxes this way.

Greg



At 11:10 AM 7/3/2002 -0600, you wrote:


>My theory is that the first partition contains engineering programs for
>performing diagnostics. Compaq used to do it this way.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
>Behalf Of J. Wayde Allen
>Sent: 03 July, 2002 11:14 AM
>To: List: Boulder Linux User's Group
>Subject: [lug] Dual Boot with Windows XP
>
>
>
>Just bought a new laptop and need to setup Linux.  As usual step one for
>me is to pretty much wipe the disk clean and start over, and often I just
>install Linux and nothing else.  However, this time I'd like to make this
>a dual boot machine.  Nothing particularly odd there, except I was just
>looking at the partitioning scheme for the factory install of XP and
>they've got:
>
>Name    Flags   Part Type       FS Type         Label   Size
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>hda1            Primary         Unknown (DE)               32.91 MBytes
>hda2    Boot    Primary         NTFS            [^C]    29964.70 MBytes
>                 Pri/Log         Free Space                  8.23 MBytes
>
>This is a bit different than what I've seen in the past.  Is there
>something special about the first and last partitions here?  My first
>inclination is like I said, to delete everything, partition off a minimal
>section at the beginning of the disk for a reinstallation of XP, and then
>install Linux in what is left.  I'm just wondering if maybe my
>partitioning might end up being a bit more complicated this
>time.  Comments or references I should read?
>
>- Wayde
>   (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)