On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 20:20, Tom wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:05:58PM -0500, Eric Dickner wrote: > > What do we do for a "lossless" XP install? > > In the world of 'pooters, there's what you *can* do, and what you > *should* do. What you *should* do is called a "best practice." > > Here's what you *should* do: > > *Back up your data. > *Boot from the Windows XP CD. > *Delete whatever is the first partition on the first HDD. > *Create 1 partition for Windows and leave space for Linux, unless you > are going to install Linux on a 2nd HDD. > *Install Windows XP on the first partition of the first HDD. > *Install Debian wherever. > Alternatively, make a small (10mb) partition on /dev/hda1 and make that your boot partition. Then all you have to do is edit /etc/lilo.conf and set it so that you can boot /dev/hda3 (wherever windows is) just as easily as anything else. Good luck
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