[64studio-devel] Will install allow dual boot?

[Daniel James]

Hi Andy,

> I bought an HP Pavilion with 64 dual chip today.  Look forward to 
> installing this exciting distro.  Will the installation allow me to 
> preserve my XP partition and dual boot?

Absolutely, you just have to install Windows first, leaving at least 5GB 
free for Linux partitions and swap space (I would personally allow more 
space for files in a /home partition).

During the 64 Studio installation, select 'Manual partitioning' instead 
of 'Erase entire disc', for fairly obvious reasons :-)

The Grub bootloader should make a menu entry for Windows automatically.

If you install Linux first, Windows will simply ignore it during install 
and overwrite your bootloader in the MBR, leaving the Linux system hard 
to boot without a rescue CD or floppy.

Cheers!

Daniel