250gb Xp
I have a 250gb hard drive can i dual boot linux and xp?
i need to do this free or as cheap as poss. i am a linux newbie and i need some help here i am getting sick and tired of windows but most of the hard drive is full of movies but after i burn them off i want to format and put linux and xp on it if poss.
You can definitely have Linux and Windows Xp as dual boot on ur system. I have 2 linux distros and Windows Xp on my 40GB harddisk. 250 GB is a very high amt of hard disk space.. You can have anything you want installed on it..
Before going for dual boot, you need to know how to patition the disk for linux installation, and on what steps you should take before doing it..(as you say you are a newbie to linux).. Refer http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/ch-x86-dualboot.html
While partitioning, dont allow it to do autopartition, as it would eat up all the free space u have.. Choose "Manual Partition with diskdruid" option and partition it as follows..
You may assign some 10GB for linux, where the partitioning may be as follows:
Mount Point ----- Size
------------------------------
/ ------ 5GB
/home ------ 5GB
/boot ------ 100MB
SWAP ------ 3 x RAM_SIZE if ur RAM is less than 512MB if RAM is >512 MB, have ur SWAP as 750MB (This is my personal opinion after a lot of performance testing and optimization)
You can mount your FAT or NTFS format drives(windows drives) with linux.. so, u dont neeed to assign much extra space to linux, as ext3(linux format) drives cant be seen from windows. You can instead use the mounted windows drives itself for data storage on linux also. This way you can have the maximum amount of hard disk usable on both OSes.
To start with, Mandriva or Fedora should be good options, as regards to distro.
Hope this helps you in installing a dual boot system succesfully.
(PS: Remember that installing Windows XP first and then installing linux is the easiest way, as linux would detect windows and boot it, whereas windows wont detect linux. Though there are other ways to recover linux partition if u install linux before installing windows, its not the recommended way for a newbie)
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