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From: Matt Giwer on 5 Apr 2008 15:55
JAG CHAN wrote:
> My nephew, who is Windows XP user, now wants to switch over to Linux.
> He is thinking of installing either Ubuntu or PCLinuxOS.
> He is also upgrading his HDD from present 40GB to 160GB.
> However before completly switching over to Linux he wants to try out
> Linux by dual booting it with Windows XP, which he is using at present.
> How should he go about it?

Leave the small drive installed and put linux on the new drive. This will keep
linux safe from almost any stupid thing XP might do. Linux will detect the XP
formated drive and include it in /etc/fstab with the correct parameters so you
can access any data from linux.

> That is how should he partition his HDD for Linux installation.
> Does Linux install in NTFS format or he will have to make partion of FAT
> 32 ?
> In general any help regarding how he should go about it will be of great
> help to us.

If needs to partition it for some other reason it is sort of arbitrary mainly
dependent upon how much data he wants to access when running XP as it can only
MS type file formats.

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