Duel Boot Linux and XP

[nwo]

hi,

i been looking for a easy linux that i can set up on a laptop pc
and keep windows xp, i was about to download gentoo linux
but i can't find any infor about duel booting dose anyone know
a good linux OS that easy to set up with XP

[bazooka]

If you are wanting easy, I would not use gentoo. You have to recompile gentoo. Use something like Fedora Core 4 or SuSe.

[vitualis]

For "easy" Linux, I would recommend Xandros, MEPIS or K/Ubuntu.

Regards.

[thevoelk]

Fedora Core 4.

It will walk you through the process of dual booting. I had never touched Linux before I set up the dual boot configuration of Fedora and Windows XP. Unless all of your hardware was released within the past month, Fedora probably has a driver for it. It will detect your Windows XP drive/partition without issue. I would recommend making sure XP is instllaed on it's own drive first, then boot to the Fedora CD.

[VenGeanCe]

yeah get fedora core or debian wud do a gr8 job for u
@voelk FC4 actually detects most hardware after 2001 so need for drivers and i think that linux actually needs no drivers need ur comments on this

[thevoelk]

What I menat was that it has drivers, at least a generic one, for most devices. If you have the latest SLI card from nVidia, or the latest mainboard from Asus, you're probably going to have to hunt around for a driver. If you have a standard hardware setup, you should be all right. I had a Logitech USB camera, I can't remember the model since I'm not at work, but it picked it up and configured it during setup. I think it did name it odd (compared to Windows), something like Multimedia Presentation Device or something like that.

[VenGeanCe]

yup that's the prob with Linux it names some things quite oddly and yeah i agree with u it wud need drivers for graphic cards and cams.btw can ne Linux distro write into NTFS partition cause many can only read NTFS partitions