Sony Vaio & Linux Problem

[skiercath]

I want to make my Sony Vaio grt796hp laptop dual boot with Red Hat Linux & Windows XP professional -can't ge it to work - HELP!!!

[j2buttonsw]

There are plenty of tutorials on the net (the spritual home of the Linuxer) here's one for starters: http://www.enterprisedt.com/publications/dual_boot
.html I have never done it but I would start by creating a FAT32 (you may have problems with NTFS) partition of half the drive (to a maximum of 7 GB) and install XP onto that. Once that is happy then boot up from the Redhat CD then install this onto the free space. The RedHat loader should see the XP and give you the choice of loading either OS. It seems you have to subscribe to RedHat to get the latest version (V9) but the newer GUI versions are much more user-friendly than the older command line versions.

[lisaj]

Install Windows from afresh on a partition taking roughly half the size of the disk. Then install Linux on a series of partitions (it creates them itself) on the other half of the disk. The grub bootloader will happily deal with the fact that Windows is there and will give you both choices on boot-up. It might also be worth looking into just running CygWin on Windows.