[Techtalk] Installing XP without affectin Linux

[Christine Bussman]

David Sumbler wrote:
>
> The spare partition is /dev/hda1, and my current Linux / is
> on /dev/hda7.  There is already an appropriate entry
> in /boot/grub/menu.lst for booting Windows on /dev/hda1 - I used to have
> Win98 on there, so apart from changing the name perhaps, I do not need
> to touch menu.lst .
>   
It's helpful that it's /dev/hda1 that you're planning to put windows on, 
because I would not be 100% sure that even XP would be nice installing 
elsewhere, especially with an OS it didn't recognize in the first partition.
> As I understand it, then, all I need to do is the following:
>
> 1) Install WinXP on /dev/hda1 ; OK to format in NTFS?
>   
If possible, it would be better not to use ntfs because Linux usually 
can't write to ntfs.  However, when I dual boot I often make the system 
partition in windows be ntfs and then have a small fat32 partition, so 
there is someplace on the hard drive I can write to from both operating 
systems.

Sorry I can't comment on the rest of it, because the distribution I use 
is quite different.

Christine