My understanding is that XP does not boot as the other WIN Os's do. It has a two stage doot process
that overwrites the normal (sic) MBR.

You could boot your Minux from a floppy disc. There is a Linux program out there that will allow you
to change the MBR that XP creates so as to dual boot Linux with XP. I have not tried it, nor have I
read any reports on it.

It is called (if I remember correctly) Boot Pattition 25. Sorry to be so vague.

Richard Innes
Auckland New Zealand
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