People have been whining about the WinXP dual boot problem all day. This is a crock, and very easy to get around. You go out and buy a new hard drive, which will cost very close to zero these days, and use it as your Linux drive. Since all modern BIOSes can boot from any device you've got, you use the BIOS as your boot loader. When you want to run WinXP, you tell BIOS to use HD 0. When you want to run Linux, you tell BIOS to use HD 1. Problem no more. I have been doing this since RH7.3, and it amazingly continues to work. Windows doesn't know about Linux, and Linux doesn't know about Windows. And, most importantly, I can upgrade either one without affecting the other.
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People have been whining about the WinXP dual boot problem all day. This is a crock, and very easy to get around. You go out and buy a new hard drive, which will cost very close to zero these days, and use it as your Linux drive. Since all modern BIOSes can boot from any device you've got, you use the BIOS as your boot loader. When you want to run WinXP, you tell BIOS to use HD 0. When you want to run Linux, you tell BIOS to use HD 1. Problem no more. I have been doing this since RH7.3, and it amazingly continues to work. Windows doesn't know about Linux, and Linux doesn't know about Windows. And, most importantly, I can upgrade either one without affecting the other.