On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 14:10, Mahesh T Pai wrote:
There are complaints in other mailing lists to wich I subscribe, that doing a dual boot on a system with XP will actually result in a duel between the partitions, with non-enslaving s/w being eXPpelled from the hard disk.
You may be able to install linux on a partition. But, next time you boot into XP, the 'install new hardware' program will run and the linux partition will be formatted and converted to winXP partition, of course, *with* your permission, which you gave by clicking the 'accept' button first your system was run.
What you say does not seem to be true, at least not for all machines. I know a few machines with both XP and Linux, and at least one with XP, W98 and Linux. They have been running without any problem.
(a) that there was a hidden partition of 4 GB that contained the OS
Huh? So the HDD is actually 44GB (or more)? Or is that the system would display HDD size to be 36GB, and it would require some hacking to identify the OS partition? (Just curious)
I have not yet seen the machine. Have to check up.
Regards Sasi