My new laptop (vaio VGN-S1XP) came with XP pro and I want to dual boot this with fedora.
The trouble is that the space taken up by the pre-installed software makes partitioning difficult.
The biggest items are:
I ntotal there is 7.34 GB pre-loaded.
Even if I could squeeze fedora between that and the 1024 cylinder limit it would leave no room to add to the Program Files or WINDOWS folders.
Is there any way I can tell XP to look for the Program Files folder, pagefile, and/or hiberfil on another partition?
Also, I read the "older" BIOSes can't boot past 1024 cylinders.
Does this mean that the limit no longer applies?
Thanks
The trouble is that the space taken up by the pre-installed software makes partitioning difficult.
The biggest items are:
- hiberfil.sis - 512 MB
- pagefile.sis - 768 MB
- Program Files - 2.14 GB
- WINDOWS - 3.2 GB
I ntotal there is 7.34 GB pre-loaded.
Even if I could squeeze fedora between that and the 1024 cylinder limit it would leave no room to add to the Program Files or WINDOWS folders.
Is there any way I can tell XP to look for the Program Files folder, pagefile, and/or hiberfil on another partition?
Also, I read the "older" BIOSes can't boot past 1024 cylinders.
Does this mean that the limit no longer applies?
Thanks
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