[isotonic_uk]

hi got a quick question

at the moment i am dual booting my pc with windows 2000 and windows xp, on 2 separate partitions and want to create a new partition with partition magic and put on red hat linux. is this possible, will it ruin my 2 other os's.

thanks

[GazmanAus]

Shouldn't be any problems apart from a few things to watch out for:

Try to keep the linux file system as a NT based file system. Typically this means as NTFS. This will allow you to share files, etc across the drives.

LILO will install as your boot manager by default. This has some implications when you want to remove Linux. Some workarounds and good leads can be found on the thread I started earlier HERE .

Make sure you have hardware that is supported. Most stuff do have specific drivers already included with the install of Linux, but win/soft-modems are still pretty well not supported under Linux.

Otherwise, have fun.

***Edit***
As always, make sure you have a current backup before preceeding with installing another OS. No need to make it harder for yourself should things go kaboom.

[lynch]

My 2 cents
If you use PartitionMagic,make sure you run chkdsk and defragment your drives before you resize.If you dont have PM 8,then dont format with PM-just leave the empty space for the Linux installer to find and format as ext3.I dont see the point of formatting the Linux partition as NTFS.Red Hat doesnt support NTFS for some so-called "copyright "reasons.It doesnt stop the other distributors of Linux(Mandrake,SuSE etc)from including support for NTFS.And that's just for read-only support.The write support is still experimental.
lynch

[GazmanAus]

Originally posted by lynch:
[B]I dont see the point of formatting the Linux partition as NTFS.Red Hat doesnt support NTFS for some so-called "copyright "reasons.It doesnt stop the other distributors of Linux(Mandrake,SuSE etc)from including support for NTFS.And that's just for read-only support.The write support is still experimental.

Didn't realize that was the case. Thanks for the heads-up, lynch.

[thirsty]

i got cleared some of my doubts sir,
then how to down load linux 8.0 freely from net.

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