My current WinXP configuration has reached the "Proper F***ed" phase of it's life, and I will be starting fresh soon. What I need, is advice on how to best set up a Dual-boot system with Windows XP and Red Hat Linux, and get them to coexist on the same laptop; same 37GB HDD.
First off, I need to know how to go about paritioning the drive; if I partition with the Windows utility, Linux won't recognize it most likely, and as far as I know, once I partition with Red Hat, I need to go through and install it, which would undermine windows and prevent me from installing it... am I missing something? how do I get started here?
I've a 37GB local disk which I want to keep both operating systems and the more commonly used applications on, a 20GB USB HDD that I want to share between the two, and use primarily for Linux storage, and a 200GB USB HDD that I want to use for Windows files, but should be readable from Linux.
Also, how do Red Hat 9 and Fedora Core 4 compare, and which would you recommend for a 1.18/2.20GHz ACPI notebook with 512MB of DDR SDRAM and only around 10GB of available HDD space?
(I've used Red Hat 9 on an older system before, but haven't yet had a chance to try Fedora Core 4)
PS. It MUST recognize an MN-720 Wireless PC Card.
First off, I need to know how to go about paritioning the drive; if I partition with the Windows utility, Linux won't recognize it most likely, and as far as I know, once I partition with Red Hat, I need to go through and install it, which would undermine windows and prevent me from installing it... am I missing something? how do I get started here?
I've a 37GB local disk which I want to keep both operating systems and the more commonly used applications on, a 20GB USB HDD that I want to share between the two, and use primarily for Linux storage, and a 200GB USB HDD that I want to use for Windows files, but should be readable from Linux.
Also, how do Red Hat 9 and Fedora Core 4 compare, and which would you recommend for a 1.18/2.20GHz ACPI notebook with 512MB of DDR SDRAM and only around 10GB of available HDD space?
(I've used Red Hat 9 on an older system before, but haven't yet had a chance to try Fedora Core 4)
PS. It MUST recognize an MN-720 Wireless PC Card.