I believe the restore cd will do this and there is no way to stop it. You need the XP install media, not the restore CD (which is how I got my compaq laptop working correctly - 2nd boot option is labelled "dos", hee hee).
Complaining may be fun but probably wont help you get a dual boot system in the short term. BB on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:46:30AM +1100, Danny Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My girlfriend recently bought a computer, a Compaq Presario 6000, > and the first thing I tried to do was set it up to dual boot Linux. > (Though she didn't previously have a computer, she's a programmer who > uses AIX at work, and was quite excited by the prospect of getting C, > perl, python, etc. development tools.) > > I did a RedHat 8.0 install, repartitioning the 80gig hard drive, > leaving 50gig for Windows and using the rest for Linux. There were > some problems -- the modem wasn't detected and I fear it's some kind > of evil WinModem -- but I got everything basically working. > > When I went to reinstall Windows, however, I found that the restore CD > insisted on reformatting the entire hard drive! Aaarrrgh. Is there > any way around this? (As far as I can tell, parted and FIPS won't > resize NTFS partitions -- is there some other way of doing that?) > And is it worth complaining to Compaq (or the ACCC) about this? > > Danny. > -------------------------------------------------------- > http://dannyreviews.com/ - over six hundred book reviews > http://danny.oz.au/ - free speech, free software, travel > -------------------------------------------------------- > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
