<snip> > As we all know, hardware is only half the computing equation. The > hdx comes equipped with a 64 bit version of Vista. I powered it up > when I got home and spent the next 30 minutes watching it go through > its startup process. Then I played with it for about an hour. It > runs pretty fast on the hdx, but there was no way that I was going to > keep it installed. I had XP installed (dual boot) on my last > laptop. I ended up using it about twice a year... not enough to > warrant the precious hard drive space it took up. If I come to the > conclusion that I need Windows on my hdx, I'll install XP on it. > Nevertheless, I made the Vista recovery disks before I uninstalled > it. It took about 2 hours to make 3 single sided DVDs. Sad. > <snip>
IMHO you don't need a Windows partition in this day and age...just run VirtualBox or VMware Server and then install a Windows guest O.S. under that. I do that every day (unfortunately as a work requirement because they will only provide me a Windows based VPN solution). Kevin -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
