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 +, 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
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