I did it! xp and red hat 8 on the same computer!...details inside.

[jimang29]

Using fdisk and starting from scratch(1 freshly formatted hard drive)..so be prepared to wipe out your hard drive if you dont have separate partioning software.

Here are my steps:

- use fdisk to create 1 primary partion and 1 extended partition (each one 50% of availabe space..20GB total for me)

- then create 3 logical drives within the extended partion(100MB, ~200MB or 2x your RAM, and fill the remainder). These are for the boot, swap, and root partitions for linux.

- make the primary partition active through fdisk and install xp in that partition.

- install windows bootdisk, reboot, run fdisk and set the 2nd partition (extended partition) active.

- reboot with the linux install cd in.

- choose the disk druid partition program and click on each logical drive to edit them (d:, f:, and g: for me)

- label them appropiately as root, swap and boot partitions and change them to ext 3 file format. (swap doesn't have that option)

- I chose the kde desktop enviroment. Gnome didn't work for me as well as some other people who's posts I've seen.

Thats pretty much it...i'll check up on this post to see if anyone has questions.

[ElijahMcNeish]

Um, ok. *Finds joy in other's happiness..*

[mdwatts]

I'll move this to the 'How I did it' forum.

[sk8bloke87]

why would u use fdisk if you have xp though??? xp has a built in partitioning utility thats faster than fdisk and requires no checking for errors....

[jimang29]

Originally posted by sk8bloke87
why would u use fdisk if you have xp though??? xp has a built in partitioning utility thats faster than fdisk and requires no checking for errors....

I didn't realize that until I began to install xp:o

[sk8bloke87]

hehe, there's one bad thing about the built in partitioning utility though. 5 partitions max. *sigh*

[LinuxChinux]

how do u partition it through xp?

[sk8bloke87]

just pop the disc and when it asks you if you want to go ahead and install xp, select yes, and if it says that you have windows xp installed, hit esp. You'll get to a screen and from there, you can setup partitions.