In answer to your first question, I can only reply from a user's
perspective. At the University of Ulaster we have about 100 computers
with dual-boot Fedora/WinXP and I've never seen or heard of any
problems. Of course I'm just a student, I don't know if the people who
set up the system had any problems.
-Eric
On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 12:52, Keith Davey wrote:
> Hi,
>> I have finally managed to get to a stage where I can work without
> windows, so I want to get linux on my
> work laptop.
>> However, I can't get rid of windows altogether yet, so I was looking
> into setting up a dual boot for the moment.
>> So I have too questions:
>> 1. Does Grub play friendly with Windows XP? I've used it with Win 2000
> no problem.
> 2. Is NTFS resize safe or will it kill my partition? Of course I'll back
> stuff up as well.
>> Thanks,
>> Keith
>
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