[ale] dell laptops and prepackaged (cough...cough...) windows xp

[Jonathan Glass]

Dell ships a restore CD (on the last one I ordered, at least).  Just use
parted on the RH Installation CD, and split the WinXP partition. Be sure
to read up on parted first, though.

HTH

Jonathan Glass


On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 12:30, John Wells wrote:
> For those of you who have bought Dell laptops (I have an Inspiron 8200 on
> the way), how was the hard drive configured?  Additionally, did you
> receive a full Win XP cd or just a Dell restore cd?
> 
> Reason I'm asking is that my laptop has 40 gb, and I'm hoping they break
> this up into separate paritions.  I'd like to install RedHat 8 in one of
> the later partitions but keep Win XP around (I do have a few requirements
> under this project that would be more easily accomplished under XP...sql
> server and the like...don't shoot me please).
> 
> John
> 
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Jonathan Glass
Systems Support Specialist II
Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience
Georgia Institute of Technology
404.385.0127

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