Re: Problems partioning XP disk

2003-11-17 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 November 2003 04:05 pm, Eric Dickner wrote: > Hello All. > > Starting right off the bat in the set of instructions for installing > on an existing disk running Windows I have a problem. Section > 3.6.1.1 tells you to create a bootable flo

Re: Problems partioning XP disk

2003-11-17 Thread Bojan Baros
If you ever wondered about the i386 install with Windows, you probably would have remember the section 3.6.1.1 from the Debian Install document ;) http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-Lossless Bojan > What are you actually trying to do? > Install Debian? > On the sam

Re: Problems partioning XP disk

2003-11-17 Thread Kent West
Eric Dickner wrote: Hello All. Starting right off the bat in the set of instructions for installing on an existing disk running Windows I have a problem. Section 3.6.1.1 tells you to create a bootable floppy with the "sys a:" command, something that I have done in the past on older versions of Wi

Re: Problems partioning XP disk

2003-11-17 Thread Tom
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:36:08PM -0500, Nathan wrote: > 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 > > *shoul

Re: Problems partioning XP disk

2003-11-17 Thread Nathan
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'

Re: Problems partioning XP disk

2003-11-17 Thread Tom
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 fro

Re: Problems partioning XP disk

2003-11-17 Thread David Palmer.
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:05:58 -0500 "Eric Dickner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All. > > Starting right off the bat in the set of instructions for installing on an > existing disk running Windows I have a problem. Section 3.6.1.1 tells you > to create a bootable floppy with the "sys a:" com

Problems partioning XP disk

2003-11-17 Thread Eric Dickner
Hello All. Starting right off the bat in the set of instructions for installing on an existing disk running Windows I have a problem. Section 3.6.1.1 tells you to create a bootable floppy with the "sys a:" command, something that I have done in the past on older versions of Windows but apparently