It appears that Mark Phelps was responding to some web page that we have not seen. Certainly it's not applicable to anything that was posted here.
Nevertheless I'm curious. Does anybody know what MS has done to make their system so easy to corrupt if we let Linux resize it's installed partition? -- Allen Brown abrown at peak.org http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ [on hackers] ... they are artists who create because they're incapable of not creating. --- Britt Blaser ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harald Sundt" <h_su...@efn.org> To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <euglug@euglug.org> Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2011 12:02:04 PM Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] HOWTO Dual boot Windows Linux laptop PLEASE SEE WARNINGS IN THE COMMENT PLEASE SEE WARNINGS IN THE COMMENT DIRECTLY AFTER THIS ONE! Quote: If people blindly follow your instructions and have (more likely these days) a Vista or Windows 7 PC, they will most likely corrupt their existing installation -- by allowing the Ubuntu installer to shrink their Windows install. If you're going to put stuff like this out the the community, you need to be careful to qualify it by indicating it is for Windows XP, NOT for Vista or Windows 7 users. If you intend this to be used by Vista or Windows 7 users, you need to add wording about using Windows to shrink their OS, NOT using the Ubuntu installer or GParted. Also, because installing dual-boot runs the risk of corrupting the Vista/Win7 boot loaders, which generally does not happen with Windows XP, you need to add instructions for folks to obtain Vista or Win7 Repair CDs -- so they can repair their boot loaders. Mark Phelps I am NOT a linux guru, I am just sharing the results of my efforts! -- “the ancient destructive urges in, us, that grow more deadly as our populations approach in size and complexity those of ancient Mars. Every war crisis, witch-hunt, race riot and purge…is a reminder and warning. We are the Martians. If we cannot control the inheritance within us…this will be their second dead planet!” quote: Dr. Bernard Quatermass of the The British Experimental Rocket Group The BBC TV serial miniseries version of "Quatermass and the Pit" 1957. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
