Some OEM disks give you no alternative but to format all. Such as a recovery partition. Always XP first.
deface On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 01:27 +0000, James wrote: > Michael Higgins <linux <at> evolone.org> writes: > > > > I have a laptop with a spare partition waiting for WinXP, to install > > from Dell OEM disks that came originally. > > > Is this possible? I understand XP will overwrite the MBR. So, I'd have > > to re-install grub & that's it? '-) > > The easiest thing to do is install XP first. Then use the microsoft utilities > (I forget the name) to shrink down the size of the partition (usually about > 50%). Then install Gentoo in the space that XP is not occupying. > > > James > > > -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
