Turns out the "restore" disks that came with the laptop do as feared put the entire computer back in its original configuration. Any new partitions you created just disappear. So no way to install it as a second bootable system.
Using some kind of partition shrinking software could have worked but I just didn't want to deal with it (for one thing, it uses NTFS which reduces the number of options, apparently). I wonder if Microsoft realizes the consequences of this policy (I assume they're behind it). I was starting to think that maybe XP wasn't as crappy as I thought it would be, and hoped to play around with it more. Now, that's over, and they've lost an XP user. Not that Linux users count that much, it's just an odd policy. By the way, turns out Lilo v. 22 does use LBA addressing and maps kernels in partitions going beyond the first 1023. Judah Judah Milgram [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O. Box 8376, Langley Park, MD 20787 (301) 422-4626 (-3047 fax)
