Hello, I seem to have an adventure every time I set up a dual boot laptop with Windows and Gentoo.
The last time I found out that HP will ship you an OEM install CD so after formatting the hard drive (deleting the windows hidden partition) you can put windows on any partition you want and not have the MS running partition conditioning on the linux and grub sectors. Grub is the bootloader/manager. I do not trust MS, but, we still have critical windows software we have to use from time to time. Sony does not offer such a OEM CD. They say I can purchase the Vista CD at retail prices (not fond of this option). Sony does purport to have a good web site for individual device drivers at esupport.sony.com, although I have not used it (yet). Sony also said that XP will run on this new VIAO (model PCG-384L) laptop. I not so sure Vista is better than XP. I want grub as the bootloader. Right now my best option seems to be: purchase a copy of vista or XP from the local university ($30) and install it on a new partition and use Grub as the bootloader. Install Gentoo too. Have I missed anything? Any other comments or insight is most welcome. James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
