[sllug-members]: Re: sllug-members Digest, Vol 27, Issue 15

[Jason Porter]

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> From: sllug-members-bounces at sllug.org [mailto:sllug-members-
> bounces at sllug.org] On Behalf Of Andrew GIlmore
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 2:11 PM
> To: Salt Lake Linux Users Group Discussions
> Subject: Re: [sllug-members]: Re: sllug-members Digest, Vol 27, Issue
15
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> On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 13:41 -0700, Erik Falor wrote:
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> >         Message: 1
> >         Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 07:29:55 -0700
> >         From: "Jason Porter" <Jason.Porter at octanner.com>
> >         Subject: [sllug-members]: Dell Precision 690 w/ XP and Linux
> >         To: <sllug-members at sllug.org>
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> >         I have a Dell Precision 690 here that I would like to dual
> >         boot XP and
> >         Linux.
> 
> The Dell Linux forums are usually pretty helpful. See linux.dell.com,
> and the linux-precision archives:
> http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-precision/
> 
> Good luck with this. I'm running FC6 on a Precision 670. I had to
> disable the BIOS RAID to get access to the drives directly. I don't
> think you can use the BIOS raid in Windows and get RAID in Linux as
> well, but perhaps the above resources will help.
> 
> I have dual booted it, but it is probably 99% Linux or more.
> 
> Andrew
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[Jason Porter] 
I know this is a little old (went on vacation) but I was able to get it
to work.  I had to resize my main NTFS partition (it took up the whole
boot drive) and install /boot on to the first drive.  After that was
finished everything worked fine, thanks for all of the responses!