On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:00:57 -0600 (CST) Gayle Lee Fairless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Assembling the new system at the hardware Special Interest Group > (SIG) took little time since the teacher is quite experienced. We > partitioned the Seagate into 3 main areas with a swap partition for Linux > as a fourth partition: future Windows XP, swap, Linux ext2, and common > data area FAT32. The system also has a floppy drive, CD-RW (used as a > CDROM booter), and ATI Radeon 9550 graphics card. The keyboard and mouse > are PS/2. The microprocessor is a Pentium 4 Prescott with hyperthreading > at 3.2 GHZ. > this should be a snappy setup for you but I have one concern: "future Windows XP" partition. Its been a long time since I've installed windows of any flavor, but IIRC, the windows installer will write to you master boot record (MBR) and not care one lick about the fact that you have another OS on board. There are a couple of ways to work around this. 1. install windows first -- well that's right out unless you want to go through all this again. 2. make a boot floppy that will let you boot into debian when you choose. 3. make a boot floppy to boot into Debian and then install a different boot manager (lilo or grub -- they both have the +'s and -'s) to allow you to boot either winxp or deb from the hard drive. Another thing to watch out for is windows potentially re-formatting/partitioning the whole drive on install. A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
