Linux and Windows XP

Miscellaneous Topics
#1

Hello everyone.

I’m a long time user of Windows XP, and have been developing web applications on it.
This has made deployment more difficult because the target enviroment on which
the application will be running is linux. So I’ve decided to change operating systems,
the problem is I lack a lot of the technical know how to do it.

I’ve decided to ask the very intelligent people in this forum for a little advice.
What I want to accomplish is to have a dell computer running Windows Vista
and Fedora Linux. But the computer I have in mind already has Windows
installed. My question is, how difficult is it to install Fedora linux if Windows
is already the main partition, and still keep the Windows partition intact. If there
is a solution involving a secondary hardrive I’d also be very grateful
for information regarding this too.

If you read that and you feel like responding, please do so. I’d be very grateful
for any information you can provide. Thank you.

#2

fedora’s installer is pretty user friendly as with most other distro’s (Suse, ubuntu, xandros, etc) it has all the tools you need and allows you to create partitions on your current hard drive without loosing the data on it, as well as install a boot manager that will allow you to choose which OS to boot at startup.

#3

Hi Kapta.

This is very good news for me, and should enable me to make the next step.
If there’s any articles you have on doing this, that would be great!

Again, thank you for the help. I’ll also try and search google for some articles about this.

#4

I’d go with an additional hard drive regardless, its not like they are expensive anymore.

#5

Slackware installer is kind of next,next,next,finish. :wink:

#6

In my opinion, you can save yourself a lot of trouble by buying a cheap second machine. Dual-booting is very easy to set up with modern Linux distributions, and it reduces your overall hardware costs. However, if you’re doing crossplatform development on one machine, then you’ll inevitably run into “Must reboot to test” cycles. Personally, I use a KVM switch to hop between a linux desktop and a windows tablet. Good luck!

#7

i agree