Adding Reply Archived Topic: It will not be bumped to the top of the forum. Topic how do you install linux & windows on the same pc? Membername   Not a member? Sign Up Free (takes 20 seconds) Password   Forgotten your password? Post Font: Verdana Arial Black Georgia Comic Sans Impact   Size: Tiny Normal Big Huge   Color: Default Dark Red Red Orange Brown Green Olive Cyan Blue Dark Blue Indigo Black [ Check Spelling ] [ Post Preview ] [ LiveTags ] FAQ Keyword Search: Post Options Favorites Manager Notify me of new replies to this topic by email Notify me of new replies to this topic by private message Original Post thejazzman4 Posted at 4:47 am on Feb. 25, 2004 i recently purchase linux redhat but have heard that you need to partition your hard drive... i have fdisk but dont know how to use it as i already have two partitions on my hard drive. i dont want to lose my windows on backup partitions because i have no copies (its factory pre-installed). please help. thanks type your post here  type your post here

Replies mephisto mortis Posted at 1:40 pm on July 14, 2004 this is how i did it: go into bios set my primary hd (i have 2) partition and install linux on my primary hd go into bios and set other hd as primary install windows go into bios and switch hd's again setup GRUB (boot loader) *this is for doing it on 2 seperate hard drives NEVER install linux before windows because win overwrites the mbr and you will have to re-setup the boot loader darkfollower Posted at 7:39 am on April 16, 2004 Or you can find a SCUSI hard drives transfer windows to one and linux to the other and when you boot up it asks you which HD you want to use to boot from spookedgal Posted at 1:46 am on Mar. 22, 2004 If I remember correctly, to set up a dual boot with Linux and windows is to install linux and you will be asked to partition your HDD during installation. There could be more to it because when I just had linux and needed winodws as well i installed windows then did a rescue on linux by putting in the linux installation cd vitamin Posted at 3:20 am on Feb. 28, 2004 well at the boot loder you shoudl get the option of Linux , Linux Conf , Windows! You just go to windows and press enter thejazzman4 Posted at 3:14 am on Feb. 28, 2004 how are you able to dual boot??? i r sekz Posted at 4:10 pm on Feb. 27, 2004 i have done this on my test computer i followed an article online that told me how to do it let me look around and find it vitamin Posted at 3:14 am on Feb. 27, 2004 Depending on your version of linux, linux handles the partioning! And allows you to run dual boot! Cerberus Posted at 9:09 pm on Feb. 26, 2004 Hmm, you usually have a factory disk that goes with your facotry installation.  So losing your OS isn't much of a concern, just all the other information. You heard correctly about partitioning.  Windows dispises other OS's and will not allow them to run on the same drive as it.  Anyway, you can partition your drive more than twice, depeding on the drive, but i don't think fdisk will be able to accomplish the task.  You will need a program to do such a thing.  Or just get another hard drive and load Linux on there, and swith the primary and slave drives when you wish to use the OS. All 8 previous replies displayed.