Dual-booting on Dell D600 Laptop?

[lieb39]

Hello,

I have a Dell D600 laptop which I want to experiment with, however keep in mind this is my main computer so if's this is too risky and will have a high chance of me having to format than forget about it. I want to dual boot this system with Windows XP Professional (current) and Redhad Linux 9. I have a 30gb hard drive with 12gb free on one partition. No other space is aviable. So what do I have to go? What problems might I have trouble with? Any hardware issues?

Thanks,

lieb39

 

[NetRyder]

You might want to look into the Dell Forums for specific details about hardware compatibility with the D600
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/

If all the hardware is compatible, I don't see why it shouldn't be possible.

 

[adamg]

To make space for Linux you would have to reduce the size of your WinXP partition (presumably NTFS). You could use a commerical program such as PartitionMagic. The only other way is if you install Mandrake 9.1 which has NTFS partition resizing built into the install. I dont know how reliable this feature is though.