On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:05:58PM -0500, Eric Dickner wrote: > What do we do for a "lossless" XP install?
In the world of 'pooters, there's what you *can* do, and what you *should* do. What you *should* do is called a "best practice." Here's what you *should* do: *Back up your data. *Boot from the Windows XP CD. *Delete whatever is the first partition on the first HDD. *Create 1 partition for Windows and leave space for Linux, unless you are going to install Linux on a 2nd HDD. *Install Windows XP on the first partition of the first HDD. *Install Debian wherever. You can jump through all kinds of hoops messing with resizing partitions, messing with crap, &c., or you can just bite the bullet. Note that "Windows requires the first partition of the first HDD" is not an absolute rule, it's only a concession to the reality that things are much simpler if you let it think it owns the world. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
