Fedora dual boot

[John McGregor]

On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 22:12 -0500, Simon Tonekham wrote:
> First of all, where should I place the bootloader? /dev/hda (first
> hard drive) or /dev/hdb (second hard drive)? Do I also need a program
> (like Partition Magic) that I can create a partition that allows me to
> share files between the two operating systems? What is the purpose of
> that?
> 

The installer will give you a few options as to where you want to put
it. Generally in a dual boot you want to pick the MBR on hda. The Fedora
installer has all the tools necessary to partition and format the second
drive for you. When the formatting question comes up during the install,
select 'Custom'. You would be wise to avoid Partition Magic if you can.
Its been my experience that the Linux installer can balk if P.M. has
been used. The purpose of the FAT 32 partition is that Linux can not
write to NTFS and WinXP can't see your Linux install, but they both can
read / write to a FAT 32 partition. Therefore creating one gives you a
shared workspace.

John

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