My friend wants to try Linux on his brand new 2.2 Ghz P4. He has a DSL connection to the internet from Manitoba Telecom (our provincial phone company). He is running Windows XP. Is there anything to watch out for when doing the install? I've installed many many times on a Win98 box but never to an XP machine. ===== "The sooner you make five thousand mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them." - Kimon Nicolaides __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com
Every time I install RH (any version) I need to regenerate MBR on my hda. (Put Install floppy for Win95 in fd0/a: then fdisk /mbr) I download the ISOs to hda (a Windows drive) and install Linux to hdb (a Linux drive) No fancy foot work on the bootup. Linux is floppy booted; Windows boots from hda/c: Actually I tried to dual boot but never could get it to work, putting down the failure to the lame brained Compaq BIOS I have on my museum piece box. But that's a blessing in disguise really. Linux can see hda, but Windows can't see hdb/d: so I have a measure of protection there. ~Lys~ -- Please direct replies to the list. I never check Rogers Mail Boxes. Ruby ~Lys~ Rossitier Running Slackware 7.1 on Linux with Opera 6.02 http://www.slackware.com http://www.opera.com "When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite." -- Winston Churchill, On formal declarations of war On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Mel Seder wrote:
My friend wants to try Linux on his brand new 2.2 Ghz P4. He has a DSL connection to the internet from Manitoba Telecom (our provincial phone company).
He is running Windows XP. Is there anything to watch out for when doing the install? I've installed many many times on a Win98 box but never to an XP machine.
===== "The sooner you make five thousand mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them." - Kimon Nicolaides
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On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Mel Seder wrote: <snip>
He is running Windows XP. Is there anything to watch out for when doing the install?
Well, if it was me, I'd watch for when it asks if I want to use the whole disk for Linux. I'd say "yes" to that. :-) Scott -- Scott L. Balneaves | "The mark of an immature man is that he wants Unix Administrator | to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a Legal Aid Manitoba | mature man is that he wants to live humbly sbalneav@legalaid.mb.ca | for one." -- William Stekel
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 08:25:54PM -0700, Mel Seder wrote:
My friend wants to try Linux on his brand new 2.2 Ghz P4. He has a DSL connection to the internet from Manitoba Telecom (our provincial phone company).
He is running Windows XP. Is there anything to watch out for when doing the install? I've installed many many times on a Win98 box but never to an XP machine.
I guess resizing drive C: will require some program, and which one depends on the filesystem it is using. If it is using dynamic partitions, I have no idea what to do. Lennart Sorensen
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