From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GsEXm-0005ua-EB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 08:23:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kB78LhM6001176; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 08:21:43 GMT Received: from um1.unlimitedmail.net (139.Red-80-26-111.staticIP.rima-tde.net [80.26.111.139]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kB78JWfE007066 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 08:19:33 GMT Received: from ppp.zz ([137.204.208.98]) (authenticated bits=0) by um1.unlimitedmail.net (8.13.7/8.13.4) with ESMTP id kB78JS0l031638 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:19:29 +0100 From: Etaoin Shrdlu To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dual boot install advice Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:47:00 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200612070947.00406.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> X-UnlimitedMail-MailScanner-From: shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org X-Archives-Salt: 0a30c638-5a0b-4dc9-90ba-c1c1c79bd9f7 X-Archives-Hash: 393e50e58ed4491b87eedc9160184563 On Thursday 7 December 2006 05:10, James wrote: > > Once again, I'm installing several amd64 systems with dual boot XP. > > I always have to nuke the XP, reformat, leave sda1 for XP and > > continue on with the install. Since I am installing Gentoo first Maybe I missed something, but why do you have to nuke XP in the first place? Can't you just use qtparted or any other tool to resize the windows partition and then go on with the gentoo install? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list