Well, I would say, that if the recovery disk has an MS Os installed, and you have a license, just borrow someone else's OS cd to install it the way you want. Make sure you have downloed the vendors hardware drivers and stuff before you do though.
Failing that have a look on the machine and see if there is a folder with the OS cd contents. If so, you can try to copy them to a cd. Probably this will not work as the cd will need to be bootable, but if you have an older MS OS like win98, create a partition (size will be the win2k partition), install win98, then from the copied win2k files cd, upgrade (clean install) to win2k. <sigh> what a palaver, it is outrageous that although you have only purchased the right to use some software, yet you effectivley lose control of how you use the hardware. Matt -----Original Message----- From: Greg C. Madden [mailto:gomadtroll@;gci.net] Sent: Monday, 28 October 2002 11:01 AM To: debian-user Subject: RE: dual-booting with debian On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 14:24, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > I have done this on several machines. > > By far the easiest is to erase everything from the machine and start > from scratch. This is a good aproach except when all you have is a recovery disk. I don't kow how many..but.. all the laptops I looked at during a recent purchase came only with a recovery disk. These recovery disks will only install on the original equipment & takes over the whole hard drive. It is either shrink or format & install Debian, paying the MS tax :( -- Greg C. Madden Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
