I may be mistaken, but cant lilo take care of booting OS's on different drives? On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 12:41:04 -0700 (PDT) mac ten wrote: > > Greetings, > I have always went with hardware over software, so I > would just buy another hard drive and a hard drive > selector. That would keep the two OS's physically > seperated and the selector lets you choose which OS's > you want to boot. > > Anyway, thats what I would do. Just thought I would > throw that out there to give you something to think > about. > > --- Ian wrote: > > I would like some advice on how to create a > > partition without destroying any of the file on it > > including my current operating system. Is it > > possible so that I don't have to reload my current > > OS. > > I want to dual boot Linux Red Hat 7 and Windows XP. > > In the Linux for Dummies 3rd Edition it mentions > > something about fips. Would this work for me, and > > how reliable is it. > > The machine that I am using is an HP 750n, Intel 4 > > 1.7 mhz, 512 ram, 80 gig HD. > > I am new to Linux and would appreciate any help that > > I could get. > > > > Thanks, Ian Collins > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better > http://health.yahoo.com > > > majordomo@kclug.org Enter without the quotes in body of message