UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi ... thanx for the advice last time ....
i have another query ....
now that i haf installed red hat linux version 9 i think ....i have allocated a free space to load windows.... but during windows xp installation ,
it does not recognise the free space to be userable for installing of the winxp os.....
why leh ......

Allocated to what ???

The best thing u can do is install Windows first on a different drive or partition formatted as NTFS or FAT (you will be prompted for this in the very beginning of the installation)

Make sure you still have a drive or a partition wich you will not use for you Windows.

After Windows is installed, you install Linux, u choose the other drive or partition and you install it there. (This drive or partition will be divided into two or more partitions again, one for swap and one for the rest).

If you wish to access linuxfiles from your windows, it is impossible to my knowledge (maybe there is a tool but I don't know about it).

If you wish to access windowsfiles from your linux, download and install webmin. To use webmin, open browser, enter: localhost:10000 and there u will find stuff like disk and networkfilesystems where u can mount a lot of different filesystems.

Sometimes kernel doesn't support the filesystem (like ntfs), but updates are available for this.