On Thursday 07 December 2006 08:47, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Thursday 7 December 2006 05:10, James wrote: > > > Once again, I'm installing several amd64 systems with dual boot XP. > > > I always have to nuke the XP, reformat, leave sda1 for XP and > > > continue on with the install. Since I am installing Gentoo first > > Maybe I missed something, but why do you have to nuke XP in the first > place? Can't you just use qtparted or any other tool to resize the > windows partition and then go on with the gentoo install?
That's how I usually go about it on new machines. I can't be a*sed with wasting time on installing WinXP and the resizing/rebooting takes the whole lot of 15-20 minutes on a slow machine/large drive. It doesn't matter if WinXP rewrites the boot code on the MBR, as the OP said a Linux LiveCD is all you need to reinstall Grub in the MBR. -- Regards, Mick
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