dual boot windows xp pro and red hat fedora core 5 on ONE HD

[crmpicco]

Hi all,

I am having a problem installing Windows Xp Pro and Fedora Core 5 Linux together to dual boot on one 80GB HDD.

I have tried googling this problem, but so many guides are for installation on 2 HDDs - which, ATM, I dont have.

I am looking to partition my one HDD. Does anyone have a guide to do this?

Cheers.

Picco

[Spookster]

That has been discussed to death the the fedora forums. Every possible scenario in dual booting. I orignally had my system dual booted on one drive but I didn't like that. I picked up a second hard drive so I could keep each on a seperate one. Of course now I've completely gotten rid of windows so Fedora now enjoys two 80G hard drives. One for the /home partition which makes reinstalls incredibly easy and the other for everything else.

[Grant Palin]

What is your problem specifically? I've done this a few times, on a single drive, and haven't had nay real issues. If you explain your problem, I just might be able to help you out.

[daniel_g]

I was trying to dual boot using an external HD, but messed up by installing Grub on the wrong place, so I couldn't boot Windows, nor Fedora. I fixed it by partitioning my main Hard Drive, and installing Fedora using only 15 Gigs. Now I have the external Hard Drive as Fat32, so both Fedora and Windows have access to it.

First, Download GPARTED Live CD image and burn it on a CD.
Then you can go ahead with partitioning.
I could have never done it if I hadn't seen the videos on this page:
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/20/1654251

Now be careful, note in the videos that Hard Drive only uses one partition to beging with. In my case, I had 2 partitions, and you can only have a Max of 5 partitions on the Hard Drive.
If thats you case, do the following:
-Resize Windows partition(the big one).
-Create a 1Gig Linux-Swap Partition
-Create a new EXTENDED partition
From the EXTENDED partition, create:
-5 Gig ext3 partition
-Create with the rest of free space another ext3 partition.

When you use the Linux installation CD/DVD, I chose Custom Partition, and here is what I did:
1Gig swap: I had to reformat this to swap(again) to make it work
5Gig ext3: Make this / (no need to reformat)
XGig ext3: Make this /home (no need to reformat)

Also, before installing Linux, make sure you read http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc5/
Pay special attention to the parts where they talk about Grub and the clock settings.