I'm running an XP box with two harddrives a C drive with 16 gigs and a D drive with 60 gigs. Both the of drives use the NTFS file system.

Both of the drives are used by xp only.

I have 7 gigs of free space left on the C drive. The C drive is my drive with the windows directory so I guess it is the primary drive, I want to install Linux on these 7 gigs and let Linux use these 7 gigs.

I know I have to make a partion out of those 7 gigs with Partion Magic. I have Partion Magic 8.0. Anyone know how to make a partion that linux can use out of those 7 gigs on my c drive?

Also, I want to use the grub loader cause I heard it was the easiest to use. Will I have any problems with grub? How do I use grub?

Is this all that I do:

1. make a partion out of those 7 gigs with partion magic
2. install redhat 7.3 and choose during the installation to install linux on that partion
3. Choose the grub loader
4. reboot, and I can pic if I wanna boot into windows or linux?

Is that it? Do I have to do anything else to make this work? No problems.

My other drive (d drive) will still be for xp only and the rest of the c drive will be for xp only?

Thanks