[Gllug] XP - Linux dual boot

Ian Northeast ian at house-from-hell.demon.co.uk
Thu Oct 2 21:51:38 UTC 2003


Phil Reynolds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 08:27:01PM +0100, Simon Faulkner wrote:
> > Building a new PC for a friend who needs XP for his work but wants to dual
> > boot Linux as well (RedHat 9)
> >
> > Any particular best way to do this?
> 
> Install XP first, using no more than two primary partitions on the hard
> disk. 
> You should put / (or /boot at least) on a primary partition.

Why? Linux is perfectly happy in logical partitions. 

Regards, Ian

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