[Gloucs] Dual booting a Linux box

[John Kilgour]

Others may know better and certainly have much more Linux experience than I 
do. My understanding is that Linux has to be installed AFTER Windows XP. I 
suggest that you do as you intend after backing up your /home files, install 
Win XP after repartitioning and then reinstall Linux. Good luck.
John Kilgour

On Monday 21 March 2005 11:05, rob at cmsnet.org.uk wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was wondering if someone could give me some advice. I have a box running
> Linux and I want to dual boot it with Windows XP. The partitions are set up
> as:
>
>        Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem
> /boot  1          0.031     36.914  primary   ext2
> /swap  2         36.914    531.562  primary   linux-swap
> /      3        531.562  57231.562  primary   ext3
>
> I would like a ~4gb partition for windows, and a large data partition that
> both OSes can use, say FAT32.
>
> I was thinking I could use parted to resize the ext3 partition, then move
> them all forward by 4gb, creating a new 4gb partition at the start for
> windows, and a new shared data partion at the end. I could then install
> windows, then use dd to get the first 512 bytes of the current boot
> partition and use the XP boot loader to boot that.
>
> Are there any problems with that in principle?
>
> Rob
>
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