I installed, with permission, Linux on the company laptop (which I'm using now) that already had Windows XP installed; it's a dual-boot. It's an HP Pavilion XF255 we purchased from Costco. Works great!
I used a partitioning software to partition NTFS, then installed Mandrake 8.2. I think everything got autodetected nicely, though due to various work needs I'm using mostly the Windows side. As a sidenote, installing Putty, Cygwin, and DJGPP sweetened up the XP really nicely. And I got around the lack of the start.exe program by aliasing `start` to `cmd /c start`. Very nice. -Mark On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Larry Ozeran wrote: > Hi all -- > > I want to create a demonstration system for speech recognition (dictation) > and open source medical office software. I need Dragon Dictate, which > requires Windows 2000 or XP, more than 256 MB RAM, and at least 800 Mhz > CPU. (ViaVoice for Linux is simply inadequate.) What I have read recently > suggests Linux and XP can coexist peacefully. However, I seem to recall > hearing that there can be problems dual booting with Windows XP, e.g. XP > must be installed first. Does anyone know of any gotchas to be aware of > when deciding which laptop to buy? > > Thanks. > > -- Larry > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > -- Mark K. Kim http://www.cbreak.org/ PGP key available upon request. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech