Re: dual booting with linux

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In article <envlkwS7IHA.2072@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
kraleigh <kraleigh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Can you make any suggestions, refer me to any documentation, or refer me to
any news groups or forums that might be able to help me?

ALWAYS make a restoreable volume level backup if any in-use
system before trying stuff like this (which I commend you for trying BTW)
via some program such as Ghost or dd.

One way to do this is create four partitions on your drive, one
linux one windows one linux swap and one dedicated to grub, then install
grub on that one. Another way is to install grub to the boot partition
instead of to the MBR. Or if you install linux first then vista just use
the vista boot manager; you dont need grub at all.


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