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04-28-2004 #1
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Trying to install Windows XP on D drive.
I have Fedora on my C drive--aka hda. I booted off of my XP CD and went through the screens. Everything went fine until it said that there is not a compatible partition for the boot stuff (not exact message) and would not let me proceed any further.
What is the remedy for this? I don't want to do anything to kill my Linux install. It's taken me days to get it working how I like.
Also, please keep in mind that I am very new to the Linux world so please explain things to me as such.
Thanks!
P.S. Something funny my son said. He said the problem is that nobody installs a $200 operating system to their secondary drive. :-)
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04-28-2004 #2
Re: Trying to install Windows XP on D drive.
Originally Posted by vbmark
ROFL.
Windows wants to be installed on the first hd.
If you have a bios that supports booting from multi HD's you can install Windos on a different HD. Other then that, Your primary bootdisk needs to be Windos and the rest is up to you..
It's no problem to switch you current Linux HD to a secondary drive, be sure to boot from your install cd, mount your root disk and edit the apropriate config files like fstab to reflect the new hda layout. hda would become hdb.
everything else stays the same, oooh, and you will need to reinstall your bootloader after installing windos.---[ MS09-99896 - Vulnerability in All MS Windows OS ; Using Windows Could Allow Remote Code Execution. ]---
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04-28-2004 #3
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Re: Trying to install Windows XP on D drive.
Originally Posted by Opnosforatou
be sure to boot from your install cd, mount your root disk and edit the apropriate config files like fstab to reflect the new hda layout. hda would become hdb.
everything else stays the same, oooh, and you will need to reinstall your bootloader after installing windos.
Thanks!
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04-28-2004 #4
Are you using grub or lilo as bootloader ?
For lilo: (Example from own lilo.conf)
Code:root@machine2:~# more /etc/lilo.conf LBA32 boot = /dev/hda #compact # faster, but won't work on all systems. delay = 300 default=Linux265 prompt vga = normal # ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting # Linux bootable partition config begins image = /boot/bzImage265 root = /dev/hda1 label = Linux-265 read-only
Save the text file and run lilo.
For info on grub check: here.---[ MS09-99896 - Vulnerability in All MS Windows OS ; Using Windows Could Allow Remote Code Execution. ]---
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04-28-2004 #5
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Originally Posted by Opnosforatou
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04-28-2004 #6
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Originally Posted by vbmark
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04-28-2004 #7
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Originally Posted by Ether-X
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04-28-2004 #8
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im not sure if pretty or ugly is the right way to recognize bootloaders
but heres a tip press ctrl+X on the graphical boot menu. If that thows u at a boot: prompt then its lilo.
A way to recognize grub is that it offers u a friendly help hint belowyour menu options, like for additional boot params or to go to the prompt. anways grub on non grpahical display gets you to a grub> prompt
hope this helpsI\'m just a simple fisherman blessed with a lot of friends
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04-28-2004 #9
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Originally Posted by don
By the way. Looking at your avitar you don't look like a "simple fisherman" to me.
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04-28-2004 #10---[ MS09-99896 - Vulnerability in All MS Windows OS ; Using Windows Could Allow Remote Code Execution. ]---
Hardware: Asus P4P800, 1GB, P4-3Ghz, Asus V9950, Maxtor ATA HD\'s, 3Com GBit lan, Audigy ZS Plat.