Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together [LWN.net]

Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together

Posted May 26, 2004 17:10 UTC (Wed) by mongre26 (guest, #4224)
In reply to: Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together by horen
Parent article: Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together

Adding an additional hard drive is often not possible for people that use Dual Boot laptops, something that occurs where I work very often.

At this point I cannot recommend FC2, they need to re-spin with a fix for this. No Linux up to this point has had this issue, neither should FC2.

Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together

Posted May 27, 2004 1:03 UTC (Thu) by allenp (guest, #5654) [Link] (1 responses)

Just a data point: I added FC2 to a Dell C400 laptop that already had
Windows 2000 last night. Resized the NTFS partition using tools from the
SystemRescueCD disk and installed FC2 in a dual-boot setup. Windows still
boots as well as it ever did, if you can call that a good outcome. :-)

The bug apparently does not always bite.

Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together (don't think so)

Posted May 29, 2004 10:59 UTC (Sat) by f3dr0 (guest, #21932) [Link]

I also have w2k on a compaq laptop and it boot correctly after the Fedora Core 2 installation. But if use a tool like PartitionMagic __after__ the installation, it immediately says that the geometry is a mess and I got problems trying to resize partitions.

Cheers!