[CLUE-Tech] Dual-booting FC1 with WinXP on the second HD

Jay Seven Ess j7s12b at earthlink.net
Tue Jun 1 09:51:59 MDT 2004


On Tuesday 01 June 2004 04:31 am, bof wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a two hard disk computer with multiple Linux/FreeBSD versions
> on partitions on both disks. FC1 is installed exclusively on the first
> HD and Grub to its MBR to load all the OSes. I'm thinking about trying
> Windows XP and have a free partition as the first one on the second HD.
>
> Is there a way that I can install XP into this partition and then load
> it using Grub on the first?

I'm just guessing here, but what about swapping the drives
to do the XP install so that drive 2 is the first. Then switch
them back and edit grub.conf.

Or for that mater remove drive 1 completely just to be safe.

J



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