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install linux on a XP system???

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piginspring

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currently i have XP pro on drive C. when i installed xp, i researved another primary partition(drive F) for Linux. now i'm trying to install Redhat7.2 on it. how can i do that? will LILO write to MBR on drive C? or there's an option that i can choose so just let LILO write to F only? will this affect my xp pro, i mean is xp still bootable after installing linux?
any suggestion/link will be highly aprreciated!
happy holiday all!
 
Recent distributions of linux (which includes RH 7.2) are smart enough not to mess up your MBR and are quite happy to live on a system with more than one operating system.

It *will* modify your MBR, but grub (which i suggest you install instead of lilo) will give you both operating systems to choose from when the install is all done.

Just for safe measure, you can create a boot disk for xp. If things go wrong after the install, just fdisk /mbr and try again.
 


<< Recent distributions of linux (which includes RH 7.2) are smart enough not to mess up your MBR and are quite happy to live on a system with more than one operating system.

It *will* modify your MBR, but grub (which i suggest you install instead of lilo) will give you both operating systems to choose from when the install is all done.

Just for safe measure, you can create a boot disk for xp. If things go wrong after the install, just fdisk /mbr and try again. >>



thank you, buddy! BTW, i downloaded Redhat7.2, which includes two ISO files. is that all?
and can i just use the tools in boot disk to restore the system? how? thanks again.
 
the two .isos are all there is to grab. Burn em and pop em in your cd drive. reboot and go for it.

Explain a little bit about how you want or need to restore the system? Do you mean you want to restore the system to pre-installation state? If so, then there really isnt much to do, just fdisk the /mbr (using the windows program fdisk, not linux). That will rewrite the MBR to the default state, wiping out any changes by grub or lilo.
 
It's possible to install grub or lilo to your Linux partition instead of your MBR. Unless XP supports dual-boots though, you'll need a bootdisk for Red Hat everytime you want to use it.
 
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