Re: General Linux Laptoppin'

[Ray Holtz <ray@rayholtz.com>]

When I bought my laptop two years ago, I booted it into Dell's Windows 
XP once just to see how much they farted around with it.

Then a minute later I took a regular Windows XP CD and did a complete 
reinstall of XP.  I put XP on a 40% partition with NTFS, made a 10% 
fat32 partition, then a day or two later installed Redhat 8 on the other 
50% of the drive.  The fat32 partition is a nice spot to place files you 
want to be writable to both OSes.  Even though Linux can read NTFS it 
can't write to it, so the Fat32 partition comes in handy so I can work 
with files from both sides of the hard drive.

I'd say install Windows first, then install Linux.  Linux has a better 
time adapting to the windows partition to get it to dual boot.  We all 
know that Windows doesn't play nice so you don't want to try to get XP 
to setup the dual boot.  I use grub for dual booting and it has worked 
great for me from RedHat 8 to Fedora Core 3.

Hope this helps!
Ray


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