Configure dual boot on nx9420

[Philippe Andries]

Hi,
I have a nx9420 with a 100GB sata drive.
I reinstalled Win XP and created 2 partition (75 and 25 GB, both visible on WinXP disk manager.
But when I try to install FedoraCore5 or any other Linux distro, it sees only one huge partition of about 100GB.
I would like to have both Linux and WinXP running on this system
Any help more than welcome.
Regards

[Ragu_3]

Have you tried Debian Etch, the latest netinst iso burnt on to a CD? It has SATA support.

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_beta3/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso

[Ivan Krastev]

Hi Philippe,

look at this HOWTO - http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-linux-help/55273-how-install-win-xp-fedora-same-computer.html

cheers,
ivan

[Philippe Andries]

Thanks to both of you for your help, but I found the solution myself.
I booted on fedora, used linux rescue at boot.
Then using parted, I deleted the 25G partition.
Reboot in normal fedora. The 25GB were now in the status free, so I could install fedora there and it runs like hell.
Quite easy after all.

Philippe

[Philippe Andries]

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