dual boot fedora and xp

[kcthomas]

i have WinXP and am trying to install fedora core 2. It asks for a swap partition. I have a separate 3GB partition that i am using for my WinXP page file. Can i use this as my swap partition? Or should i repartition the 16Gb partition i was going to install fedora onto so that there is a 15gigger and a 1gigger? how big should you make the swap file? thanks

 

[n0cmonkey]

Probably, but it would mostly likely hurt your performance considerably. Stick with creating a swap partition for linux.

 

[user1234]

I use the same swap partitions shared between all my linux partitions (mandrake, yoper, ubuntu, fedora), but haven't tried sharing it with windows. I'm not sure if this will work, as the partition type is probably not the same.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: user1234
I use the same swap partitions shared between all my linux partitions (mandrake, yoper, ubuntu, fedora), but haven't tried sharing it with windows. I'm not sure if this will work, as the partition type is probably not the same.

Hint: Use fat32 and swap to a file in Linux.
Hint 2: It's _SLOW_.

 

[kcthomas]

i installed fedora. i created a separate partition for the swap file. after install i realized fedora overwrote my master boot record. after doing fixboot and fixmbr to get it back to the way it was before i know have a fedora install but no way to get to it. is there a way to boot to it or should i just format the fedora partition and reinstall?

if i do reinstall do i have to make a separate partition for the boot? i think i remember seeing an option for a /boot partition but i didn't do anything for it the first time around.

 

[user1234]

A /boot partition is just a convenience which simplifies handling multiple bootable linux partitions. You don't reallly need it. What you need is to set up a multi boot configuration with windows, which can be done using a boot loader like grub. I thought that the fedora install would automatically create an entry for windows, so you could boot either linux or windows. But now you removed the boot loader, so you'll need to re-install it which can be done if you have a bootable linux cdrom, like knoppix. You just boot from CD, and then install grub from the command line. Or you could do a repair/reinstall of fedora which should re-install grub. Make sure it adds windows to the boot options, but even if it doesn't you could still add it later yourself.