RH 8.0 and Win XP ??

[Jason Stephenson]

I've got FreeBSD and Win2K on my main workstation here at home. I use 
grub for the bootloader and have no problems. For the gory details of 
everything that I went through go here: 
http://www.sigio.com/articles/win2k.html. It's specific to my situation, 
but may contains some hints for you in the section on Grub.

Linux and Windows don't need to play with each other at all. Windows 
doesn't need to know about Linux and Linux doesn't need to know about 
Windows. When you're dual-booting, you can set it up so that neither OS 
knows or cares about the other. (I have my Windows partitions mounted in 
FreeBSD so I can easily copy files, but not the other way around.) 
Ideally, this is what you want.

John Feole wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> 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...
> 
> Alll advice/suggestions welcome..
> 
> Thanks,
> JFeole
> 
> 
> 
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