RH 8.0 and Win XP ??

Tom Buskey tom at buskey.name
Sun Feb 2 22:48:58 EST 2003


John Feole said:
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>My son has recently Installed Win XP Pro on the primary IDE drive, 
>/dev/hda1, and Red Hat 8.0 on the first drive in the SCSI chain,  
>/dev/sda1.  I instructed him to tell it to use the Boot Sector of the 
>drive it installed to(/dev/sda1), and he can boot fine with the floppy, 
>as I haven't ever tested WinXP with Linux.  Has anyone on the list done 
>this?

My laptop has XP and Mandrake on it.  It works well.

>Does Linux play nicely with WinXP?  Should he use Grun instead of lilo?  
>I have used it(Linux) fairly frequently with the older Win9x stuff with 
>no probs with Lilo, but am unfamiliar with Grub...

I've used both lilo & grub.  They both work well.

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