On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 7:09 PM, deface <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some OEM disks give you no alternative but to format all. Such as a > recovery partition. Always XP first. > > deface > > > > On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 01:27 +0000, James wrote: > > Michael Higgins <linux <at> evolone.org> writes: > > > > > > > I have a laptop with a spare partition waiting for WinXP, to install > > > from Dell OEM disks that came originally. > > > > > Is this possible? I understand XP will overwrite the MBR. So, I'd have > > > to re-install grub & that's it? '-) > > > > The easiest thing to do is install XP first. Then use the microsoft > utilities > > (I forget the name) to shrink down the size of the partition (usually > about > > 50%). Then install Gentoo in the space that XP is not occupying. > > > > > > James
Just a small heads-up about my installation of WinXP today on the laptop that went down last night. No problems installing Gentoo. It's up and running. Double built emerge -e world. However on the Windows side my OEM had installed Vista which I didn't like so I installed XP today. No problems installing XP (as per a previous thread) however I have no sound, video, audio or networking drivers for XP. I think I found some at the nVidia site but HP/Compaq don't want to support XP so they don't have them. The nVidia instructions say I have to install Service Pack 1a first and without networking I had to scrounge around for those, burn them to a CD, and hopefully get them installed tomorrow. The basic lesson is that M$ pushes the OEMs to abandon XP and its getting harder and harder to install XP all the time. Just a small heads-up. Not an issue if you like the version of Windows your system came with. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
