need help installing Fedora using partition magic

[William Park]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 05:14:04PM -0500, Simon Tonekham wrote:
> hello,
> 
> I recently upgraded my hard drive to an 120GB Western Digital Hard Drive 
> and currently I have Windows XP Professional with SP2 Installed on my 
> computer system. I've installed PartitionMagic version 8.05 on my computer 
> today and I wanted to know how I can safely install Fedora on my computer. 
> The reason that I'm asking is that I'm planning to install Fedora Linux on 
> my computer.The specifications goes as follows:
...
> The biggest barriers that I encounter are the partitioning and the 
> boot-loader. As for the boot-loader, which boot-loader should I use? The 
> GRUB boot loader provided with Fedora or BootMagic, the software that 
> already provided by PartitionMagic?
> 
> I'm concerned that one false move and my computer will be toast. That's 
> what happened to my uncle's computer last summer. He wasn't aware that he 
> could add an additional operating system, rather than creating a Linux 
> partition on his. Do I also need to create separate partitions every time 
> for the Linux installation?
> 
> Any suggestions will be appreciated, thank you.

My advice is to keep Windows and Linux on separate harddisk.

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