Last year I bought a Dell Inspiron that did not come with any software
cd. The drive, came with XP pre-installed as well as a "recovery"
partition that you could use to restore the XP partition to factory. Of
course it runs Gentoo. What I did was:
1. Boot with a live cd (or better yet RIPLinux on a USB stick).
2. Back up MBR, parition table, and partitions to DVD, network or
external drive.
3. Use ntfsresize to shrink the XP partition, make sure it still
boots.
4. Use the space left over from ntfsresize to create
partition(s)/install Gentoo.
5. Install GRUB on the MBR.
Worked for me. YMMV. I could have also removed the "utility" partition
to get more space, since I do have a backup. But I left it on there as
I don't really need the space.
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Albert W. Hopkins
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