I am very confused when it comes to installing Red hat Linux 7.1.. it asks me to create several partitions but I have no idea what the hell I'm doing. Whats a good partition size for Linux and having Windows XP at the same time. I've never used Linux before and wanted to just to try it out. I'm a college student with a few days off and am just tinkering. Oh and how would I go about dual booting with Windows XP so I will get OS choices on startup? sorry.. I'm very green when it comes to Linux

If you are not sure about partitions in Linux, then have RedHat do it for you... I believe it gives you an options either you do it yourself or it will create one for you! And during the installation, it will ask you if you want to use lilo to boot up your system, choose yes and have lilo boot up both your Linux and WinXP. By the way, you may want to create a bootable diskette (it will ask you if you want to or not) to boot up Linux just in case. Lawrence

Hi, I choosed 5GB for my linux partition and I only use 3.3GB. This is including alot of testing stuff and Graphics, and all the logfiles, home-dirs and src (with alot of garbage in it actually). Not included are games and not mentioned is my 1GB swap partition (5 times over-dimensionlysed, in my case). But I am using Debian Linux, so I really don't know much about Redhat. Good luck anyway, Solo

hi, Procedures for installing red hat 7.1 (or 7.0) and dual booting with WiNdOwS Xp: 1)download Partition magic 7.0 :partition your hard disk or resize it without loosing your data(no formatting!!!)--->cool Tool. 2)Boot your PC from your CD-ROM and install red hat 7.1. (the bootable CD will detect your partitions automatically). for more information send me an email