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Dual-booting WinXP and Gentoo

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Dual-booting WinXP and Gentoo

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I am new to the whole Linux scene, but I am curious and want to try Linux for myself. After doing some research, I chose Gentoo as my distribution. I already have WinXP Professional installed on my harddrive, and I still need it to play certain games. So I was wondering what I would need to do to dual-boot WinXP and Linux. I only have one hard drive, if that helps. Thanks.
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Well - I know squat about Linux - but I would guess you should partition your harddrive if you haven't aldready done that, so you have XP running on one partition and Linux on the second one.

Other then that - I can't really help you.
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Post by Vicsun »

I'm currently running a Mandrake/WinXP dual boot. And yes, Xandax is right - you will need to partition your hard-drive from within Windows before you're able to install Gentoo. I, myself, used PartitionMagic to partition; the process was rather painless and intuitive. After you have two partitions (one of which is empty) boot Gentoo from a CD and tell it to install in the empty partition. Good luck ;)
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