On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Charles Galpin wrote: > > i'd be interested in hearing just how smoothly the process of setting > > up that 8100 as a dual boot machine goes. i got an 8100 a few months > > ago and, yes, it came pre-installed with windows <whatever random > > choice i made>, since i had no intention of running windows whatever. > > the instant i got it, i blasted the windows install and installed > > red hat, but not before i noticed that, naturally, the pre-installed > > windows takes up the whole disk, and i suspect it will do the same > > with yours.
I haven't tried it with an 8100, but my 8000 worked just fine with 3 operating systems. (Win98, NT4.0 and RedHat 7.0) And the 9000 that replaced it will be running 98, XP and 7.2 as soon as I get the time to get it set up. > > this means you can't just add red hat, you have to downsize > > windows first. and before you think, hey, no problem, i'll just > > *re-install* windows on a smaller partition, think again. what > > you will likely get is not a windows install CD, it will be a > > windows *reinstall* CD -- that is, no original media but a CD > > that just lets you recover to your original layout. these days, > > dell (and others, i assume) not shipping original media. they're > > being totally sleazy and shipping only enough to let you recover > > if you trash your original install. > Actually the Toshiba Recovery CD isn't bad. (And you don't really want to install Windows on a Toshiba laptop any other way--even if you get all of the drivers from Toshiba, for some reason stability suffers.) There is an option to do a custom install using existing partitions. It creates a special boot floppy with the required info. But it is probably easier to use Partition Magic and shrink your Windows partition. (Thats what I did on my 9000) -ray _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
