could i dual boot fedora core with win xp home edition
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Yes, it is possible.  Assuming you have to hard drives, or one large hard drive which you partitioned, the installation CDs for Fedora Core automatically install a Boot Loader so you can switch between either operation system whenever you boot your PC.\n\nThe things about needing two hard drives, or a hard drive that has been partitioned into at least two, is because of the different disk formattings required by Linux Fedora Core and Windows XP.  Windows XP uses the NTFS disk format while Linux uses the ext 2 and ext 3 for their operating system.
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It is possible. You will need a CD of Windows or an I386 directory on your computers. \n\nIt is worth pointing out that both your PC and laptop should have some sort of recovery CD or Windows CD. If you are trying to install the same version of Windows on the laptop as the desktop and you use the same licence key, it will not work. Each copy of XP is licenced to an individual computer. Microsoft WILL detect that it is not the same PC that it was originally installed and will not activate your copy of Windows.\n\nCheck out microsoft.com/support and type your question there.
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You can make your system dual boot either on two physical disks or one logical disk. Some Linux distributions already come with set up software to repartition Windows drives and make thm dual boot or you can use a program like Partition Magic which has a wizard for that function.
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u can use Knoppix LiveCD (if u can use Linux based OS) or u can use Emergency Boot Disk like Hiren's Boot CD, Windows XP Live CD, etc
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If you can run the cd from a dos prompt, go to the winnt directory and run setup from there.  Good luck
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install from any xp cd and give your cd key it w'll work
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just get fedora core 6 its so much better.
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You did not state if it was XP Professional or Home you are using, so I included both link to create a bootable floppy.\nYou did not mention if you had a floppy on not.
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You can't upgrade Windows 2000 to XP Home.  You can upgrade Windows 2000 to XP Pro.  That is probably why you now how two operating system on your machine now.\n\nIf you want to put XP Home on that machine, only, you will have to do a full reformat.
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You should reinstall fedora and set it to overwrite the Windows boot sector. That way you get lilo or grub, whatever fadora uses. Then you can choose either OS from there. The install should set up a Windows chainloader for you. I'm more of a Suze and Gentoo guy myself though.
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hi, its cd's problem just change it\nif u have dvd of xp (home) u can install it. u need a xp home edition bootale wich can run from dos prompt.
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It depends on your choice and why you want it if you want every day norma; or personal use I recommend you Arabian a lightweight distribution that you can  run  it from the cd without installing (Live cd) and then you can install it if you want. If you want it as a workstation or server you can try Fedora or SuSE.
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Yes, just load the XP PRO CD with the computer already booted etc. Then when you install, be sure to select the "upgrade" option.
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Simple answer - you can't. If you are going to install you need to create a boot-disc. The only other option would be to run it in a"virtual environment" (using the likes of VMware), - there you could mount the disc-image on a virtual drive to perform the install.\n\nJust be aware that as with any other OS, you will not get the best performance running it this way.
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Just borrow a Windows XP Home Edition CD from one of your friends and use your product key.  It should work just fine.
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PUT THE HOME EDITION BACK IN AND TURN OFF THE MACHINE \nWHEN YOU RE-START 30 SEC.'S LATER BOOT FROM DISC IN BIOS AT FIRST SCREEN AND RE FORMAT AND FOLLOW ALL INSTRUCTS
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You can't really. If you could somehow do that then you would in essence be losing your dual boot status. Keep in mind when you boot your motherboard bios is looking for bootable system files. When it looks for those files it sees two sets. That's why you get the choice and there is no way to tell your bios not to look for that and to only choose one operation system over the other.