How do i Dual Boot Fedora Core 3 / Windows XP Professional ?

[GigaHz]

I am trying to get my Windows XP installation to be recodnised by Fedora Core 3 .

No matter what i do i cant get anything , i dont see Windows XP because its not there at boot screen .

I can see the NTFS partion when im installing but after that i can see nuthing , not even when im in Fedora .

Is this because Fedora cant REad/Write NTFS partions ?

Do i have to change the Windows partion to FAT32 or something like VFAT i think the Fedora website said .

Any help with this would be great

Thank You

[silenze]

The linux kernel recently picked up read/write support for NTFS without the "DANGEROUS" tag (2.6.9 for instance), has been able to read/write FAT32 for a long time.

You're going to need to figure out which boot loader you're using (sorry, I'm not a Redhat guy), and go from there.. it's going to be a change in it's configuration, read up on it though... cause you can configure dual boots a few different ways.

[GigaHz]

Im using " Grub " bootloader .

So it should be ok to use NTFS ?

I run SuSE Linux 9.1 Pro and it sees the NTFS partion fine , it can even read files from there , becasue i have all my media files stored in the Win XP partion on my other machine , and i play movies, mp3's from the Windows partion in SuSE .

I just cant get Fedora Core 3 to dual boot . :(

[jester]

another option is fix the bootloader so you only boot up into xp and load linux onto vmware so you can use linux and xp at the same time.

[silenze]

Erm... very slow linux that way anyway.

[jester]

Ive ran knoppix thru vmware, actually ran decent and wasnt too much slower than bootin into the cd. Now ms virtual machine is REALLY slow compared to vmware.

[GigaHz]

Thanks for all the help , I managed to get it to work , but i done it after i fomatted my whole drive , then relized it must be something to do with GRUB .

Because i downloaded a program called osl200 Boot Manager and it gave me a choice to boot to Linux or Windows straight away , not a problem 1st time

So i dunno , Im running Fedora Core 3 64bit on AMD64 3200+ S939 mabye i set it up wrong [Proberly] or theres a problem with Core 3 and GRUB .

Anyway , i got it .