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Posted: July 10 2006,22:31 QUOTE
First of all, I just wanted to say nice work on DSL.  I rely a lot on Windows for things, but I like Linux a lot more.  I was wondering if it is possible to dualboot XP and DSL?  If so, can someone explain it  to me or point me towards a tutorial?  Thanks in advance.
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Posted: July 11 2006,00:00 QUOTE
Anyone? I really would like to get this working.
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Posted: July 11 2006,14:56 QUOTE
This forum isnt very helpful.
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Posted: July 11 2006,22:42 QUOTE
Hmmm, I tried a search on "Dual boot", and nothing noticeable popped up. A good general outline for dual-booting any computer (windows/*nix) is to install windows
first on its own partition, then go ahead with the linux install. If you don't, then Windows will overwrite the
MBR which is where the GrUB is located. If it was me, I would boot from a dsl livecd, then I would
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and partition the drive into a fat32 for windows, an ext2 for dsl, another ext2 for storage on dsl, and a swap, for swap. After that, go ahead and install windows, then install
dsl (frugal). Remember that Windows will format the fat32 partition as NTFS. Edit the grub.lst (I think that's the right file) to include
the Windows installation. I think that should do it, although I haven't tried it myself...

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Posted: July 12 2006,01:04 QUOTE
Yes, make sure windows is installed first.  When you install DSL to the hard drive you can either do a full install to another partition or do a frugal install.  If you do the HD install you will be promted to install a boot loader.  If you do the frugal install you can choose to use lilo or grub.  I think grub is easier to configure (at least with a HD install, not sure about frugal).

By the way, this forum is not real time (although some people do visit often) and people have lives.  Especially in the Summer you can't expect an answer like you are paying for support, be patient.  There are only two developers and everything, including development and support, is volunteer work.
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