[Lincs] NewB Part 2

[Phillip Taylor]

dual booting fedora with xp is very simple.

Starting off with a machine that's just got XP on it, all you have to
do is pop in the fedora installation cd and follow the instructions.
The installer itself detects the presence of a Windows install and
asks you if you want to keep it. All you have to say is yes.

On 31/12/2007, Bob Stoner <bob.stoner at btinternet.com> wrote:
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> Thank you to all who responded in such simple terms! I have programmed in
> QBasic (that dates me), VB, VBA and C (but never C++) some time ago but the
> first impression of terminal syntax started to worry me again!
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> I am in the process of backing up the important files in XP and I do have
> gparted from the Fedora install disk.
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> **Could you please confirm that the dual boot process is a simple switch on
> and wait for the request or do I need additional software?**
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> From my research on the net it would seem that the Linux installation
> (Fedora 8) comes with all of the gubbins. Can anyone confirm this?
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> Regarding the interoperability issues I am a Maths Teacher (I know if I
> tried harder at School I could have got a proper job, in fact I did but gave
> it all up and now enjoy banging my head against a brick wall J) and I use a
> number of specific windows statistics packages, which are not cross
> platform. I am sure that eventually I will be able to find similar if not
> better Linux applications.
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> Happy New Year to you all
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> Bob
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