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Dual boot Windows XP "HOME" & Linux 7.3?

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by twgrace1

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I've seen many discussions and articles about dual booting Windows XP Professional and Linux 7.3 but I'm running XP HOME and would like to use my second hard drive as a Linux boot drive. Any thoughts on possibility or procedure?

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by scrass

I am dual booting XP Pro and Mandrake Linux 9 now. Both are on seperate hard drives. This is the procedure I followed:

1. Starting with your XP Home installed on the first drive, boot with the LINUX CD.

2. Follow the install prompts during theLINUX installation taking care to select the second hard drive as the install location.

3. At some point during the LINUX install, LILO will be installed as the boot manager. LILO will automatically detect your XP boot partition and adjust itselfaccordingly. Continue to complete the installation.

4. When the machine reboots, LILO will take over and a menu will appear listing both LINUX and XP (it shows up as NT in the menu). LILO defaults to boot with LINUX of course, but that can be changed one LINUX is up and running.

5. If you select NT from the menu, LILO hands off the boot process to XP's boot manager and XP will boot normally.

You can change the default OS selection in LILO to be the OS you use most.

Shaun Crass

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