On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Not quite. Add step 0) Using your Linux Live/Install/Rescue CD, create two empty partitions /dev/hda1 sized appropriately for Windows to prevent it grabbing all the disk and /dev/hda2 being a "cover" for the rest of the disk. Make both partitions of type 0B ( Win95 ) Now proceed with Step 1) ( Install Windows )
Ah! Thanks, Good one. Windows always drops a blessed immovable file bang in the middle of the drive meaning you get whatever size windows cares to give you. Not sure it will help us any since our Information Services bunch pre-install the windows (I think using imaging techniques, not sure), but I will suggest it to them. Thanks, John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand Carter's Clarification of Murphy's Law. "Things only ever go right so that they may go more spectacularly wrong later."
From this principle, all of life and physics may be deduced.
