Dual-Booting Kubuntu & XP, Kubuntu Already Installed

[cryosilver]

I posted a couple days ago about dual booting in the newbie forum, but now my question is a little different, since I got fed up with what had been trying continually not working.

I have Kubuntu installed on my laptop right now. There are 2 partitions: a big one for the install, and a smaller one for a swap. Together, they take up about 60 of the 80 gigs of space on my hard drive.`Since I game a fair amount, I still need XP for a while, and Virtual Box and/or Vm Server lags too much.

Is this how I install XP to dual boot?

1: Kubuntu is installed already
2: I format the 20 gigs of empty space on my hard drive into FAT32 (using the XP install disk)
3: I install XP on that partition
4: I use the Kubuntu Live Cd to reinstall GRUB (via this method
5: Victory, sweet victory

Anything missing or wrong?

As a side note, I have a 300 gig external in FAT32 that I will use as shared space for music and stuff.

[K0LO]

Re: Dual-Booting Kubuntu & XP, Kubuntu Already Installed

Is this how I install XP to dual boot?

1: Kubuntu is installed already
2: I format the 20 gigs of empty space on my hard drive into FAT32 (using the XP install disk)
3: I install XP on that partition
4: I use the Kubuntu Live Cd to reinstall GRUB (via this method
5: Victory, sweet victory

I would skip step 2. Leave the free space and let the XP installer handle creating a partition and formatting it. Also, you should let the installer use the NTFS format for the XP partition. NTFS is a much more robust filesystem than FAT32 and Kubuntu is able to read NTFS, so you can later mount the XP partition to get read access to the files stored there.

[cryosilver]

Re: Dual-Booting Kubuntu & XP, Kubuntu Already Installed

I read your advice after trying the method I described :P

However, everything currently works just fine, and I can dual boot thru GRUB.

[ponygirldefiance]

Re: Dual-Booting Kubuntu & XP, Kubuntu Already Installed

i have tried this method but windows keeps overwriting Linux how can i contain it to the free storage i have set up for windows without losing Linux? i have a 30Gig and a 75 Gig free for windows yet it always reformats the 80 Gig and the 160 Gig in the system to windows. any suggestions? thanks