[Nottingham] Installing XP on a 2nd partition

[Dallas Simpson]

FWIW In my experience XP searches attaced disks and refuses to load if Linux 
is present on any attached drive.

I have a dual boot Linux / XP system, but I had to load XP first to a new 
drive, then load Linux and partition the disk in SUSE Linux.

GRUB allws me to select XP or Linux at startup.

D.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Gibbon" <jg at jamesgibbon.com>
To: <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 8:21 PM
Subject: [Nottingham] Installing XP on a 2nd partition


>
> I want to install XP on a spare partition on the first drive
> on my main box. Here's what I've got:
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7297 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *           1        1581    12699351   83  Linux
> /dev/hda2            1582        1842     2096482+  82  Linux swap / 
> Solaris
> /dev/hda3            1843        7297    43817287+  83  Linux
>
> I'd like to install XP on hda3.
>
> Will XP install on an arbitrary partition? Can I get access to Linux
> back from running lilo from a bootable Linux CDROM?
>
> Thought I'd ask here, as I feel sure someone has tried it.
>
> TIA
> James
>
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