Yes you can dual boot.
You really don't have to do any extra if you have a whole extra drive. 
Just use that drive as your linux drive and it's a piece of cake.

As for windows eating your linux partition, I have never seen that. I've 
got many machines dual booting, and most have both both OS's on the same 
drive and never had a problem.

Troy

Brian McGonagill wrote:
> Ben, 
> 
> If by dual boot you mean boot either Windows XP, or SL4 then yes, you
> can do that, but you should google search partitioning Windows for a
> linux dual boot and make sure you partition Windows properly...I've
> heard that if you don't it will "eat" into the linux partition and
> corrupt the linux OS....guess Gates doesn't like the competition.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 08:56, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> 
>>Dear friends:
>> 
>>I am currently downloading the four CD set of Scientific Linux. My
>>first question, naturally, is: can I dual boot?
>> 
>>I have two primary HD disks: Disk 0 has Windows XP on it. Disk 1 has
>>nothing on it. Both are 40Gig drives. Can I install Scientific LInux
>>on my second disk alongside Windows XP and dual boot?
>> 
>>Is it easy to do this during Install?
>> 
>>I've had considerable experience with Mandrake Linux, so I just want
>>to make sure that this is also possible in SL before I start.
>> 
>>Thank you.
>> 
>>Benjamin
>> 
>> 


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