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On Thursday 28 November 2002 08:17, steven K wrote:
> I recently bought a new computer and they gave me a restoration disk
> instead of an installation disk. I wanted to duel boot with linux and
> windows, and this restoration disk erases all partitions and takes my
> whole drive for itself. Man what a pain! I think the only thing I can do
> is shrink the windows partition with partition magic. Is that what they
> do with new computers nowdays? Just give you a restoration disk?
yep. one more way that Microsoft software and its attendant licensing schemes
(read: rip offs) suck.
shrinking the windows patition should work well though. i've done it dozens of
times myself without any problems.
of course a dual boot system is fine, but a completely Free system is divine.
;-)
take care...
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Aaron J. Seigo
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
- Albert Einstein
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