On 8 Jan 2004 15:13:21 -0800, TingChong wrote:
> Should I use the scheme "install windows XP on disk 1 and linux
> on disk 2" instead of "install both windows XP and linux on disk 1"?

It is up to you. Only you can decide what is the best usage of the
disks. You need about ~4gig for a linux install. With linux's boot
loader you can boot several different linuxs on different disks
and still boot XP. You can even have XP as the default OS to boot.
You can install the linux boot loader on the mbr of disk 1 and install
on disk 2 and the rom still boots from disk 1.

If you plan on writting files from linux to XP create a fat32 logical
disk so linux can write to it. Mandrake linux can read NTFS out of the box.

Before the linux install, use the micro$oft tools to create the
free/unformated/unknown partition where you plan to install linux.

http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/Mandrak.../Starter.html/

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