Hello, I recently purchased a new box with an Athlon 64 3200+ proc and 160 gig HD. I would like to make this a dual boot machine (I need to run windows 2000 and visual studio 2003 for work). I'm a bit of a newbie at installing/configuring linux (I got fedora core 2 on my current box), and I'm not really sure how to go about a dual boot. I'm probably going to go with FC3 when it comes out on the 8th since I'm used to fedora and it will take advantage of the 64. So here are my questions in order of severity. Can anyone point me in the direction of a good step-by-step how-to manual? Like I said, I'm a bit of a linux newbie and while I can run make install with the best of them some of the more subtle configurations are still too tough for me. If this isn't a real option would I benefit from purchasing a book on it? How should I partition my drive? I'd like to go 100gigs linux and 60 gigs for windows, but when I read stuff, people recommend having quite a few more partitions for different uses. What's the logic behind this? Is it possible to have a partition that's shared by both (say for mp3 files and other media)? What do I install first? Does it matter if I install windows or linux first? How do I install an initialization utility? is FC3 a good idea? should I work with something less bleeding edge? Are the FC issues written in this article http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/ still applicable to FC3 (anyone out there running the preview release on a dual boot?) Sorry if these questions have obvious answers..I just haven't seen much stuff that addresses it. ===== One man's struggle to find art in a sea of infomercials. http://www.rhettoric.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list