compatibility

[Richard R. Sivernell]

On 14 Jun 2002 11:38:36 -0700
Aaron Grewell <agrewell at bothell.washington.edu> wrote:

> My initial thought is that's probably nonsense.  XP may well format the
> second drive for you as NTFS, but it shouldn't use it for the install. 
> OTOH, I've never installed XP in a 2-drive setup, so I can't say for
> sure.
> 
> On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 10:58, Herbert H. DeLong wrote:
> > I was warned by a Computer repair shop not to have  another drive as slave
> > or master as Win XP would take over the other drive and install Win XP on
> > it.i have another drive I could use but I didn't after that guy told me
> > that,
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Richard R. Sivernell" <res005ru at gte.net>
> > To: <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 11:44 PM
> > Subject: Re: compatibility
> > 
> > 
> > > On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 07:44:25 -0400
> > > "Herbert H. DeLong" <hdelong at pa.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I recently purchased an Dell Dimension 8200 Pentium 4 with 2.0GHz. The
> > machine
> > > > has windows XP . I want to partition it and run Linux and WindowsXP. Has
> > anyone
> > > > been successful in dual booting Linux with WinXP on the same drive that
> > was
> > > > partitioned by fdisk? I have COL 2.4.Thanks
> > > >
> > >
> > >   Suggest you get another drive for Linux install, you will be happier in
> > the
> > > long run.
> > > Have less problems, and you probably use the drive for warrenty purposes
> > later.
> > >
> > > cheers
> > > --
> > > Rick Sivernell
> > > Dallas, Texas  75287
> > > 972 306-2296
> > > res005ru at gte.net
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one drive one  Operating system

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Rick Sivernell
Dallas, Texas  75287
972 306-2296
res005ru at gte.net
Caldera Open Linux eWorkStation 3.1.1
Registered Linux User

   .~.
  / v \
 /( _ )\
   ^ ^
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