Thank you MAL: Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, I have already erased the partition. No I am trying to install gentoo bur unfortunately I cannot get it to compile the kde libraries. That realy sucks!
Later, Alvaro On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 16:23, Acm Acm wrote: > Alvaro, > > I've not done anything with HP's but we do a lot with dell systems @ > work and they do similar things. When we receive a system re rimage the > primary partiions with our image for the university for that system > type, loading all the osftware for the university would otherwise take > days usually but an image takes about 20 minutes, we leave the image > from dell on the hidden partition because when/if the system comes in > for a hardware problem, dell won't do jack unless we are using their > originally loaded system so we just blow that image back from dell's > partition. I'd say as long as you don't change the size of the > partition or anything you should be good. > > Check your warranty though, you may void your warranty if you change > the operating system or partition tables on the machine. One thing you > may want to try just to be sure is to go into disk manangement and set > the hidden partition visible as a drive letter and then burn that image > to a bootable CD (or set of them) which if push really comes to shove > you can fdisk, make a partion and put the iamage back on. > > MAL > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/02/02 11:25AM >>> > Hello everyone: > I had a question about a computer I have. It comes with a hidden XP > partition used to restore the OS. It is activated by pressing <F10> > during boot. I am assuming that it is some kind of boot loader like > lilo > where you can use it without prompt and press <shift> if you want to > have a menu display. > > My question is, can I safely partition the rest of the drive, not the > hidden partition, install linux, and later restore XP? Is the F10 > mechanism some type of booloader or is it burned into a chip? I am > affraid that if I install lilo or grub I might never get to boot into > the hidden partition again. > > Thanks, > > Alvaro Zuniga > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
