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 1GsHX7-00022o-37 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:35:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kB7BWwCv024440; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 11:32:58 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kB7BUjwM006405 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 11:30:45 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so454792ugc for ; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:30:44 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=ZcPUSNyauAR3CHFKrdvPTY5NZ0lwG7C+dV4Pv0Jwiqt77GNZIXrGu8RIhz7aUewghEXCDb5QLqEmXuK92JQAsiaOOnUB21mrgC3VGGmpwNLqXwhwTURrxfWe853PEl9CY89uNYmMTxHUSmux+Aws9nTV1G5WQ+1mJDqkEoKWD+M= Received: by 10.67.19.17 with SMTP id w17mr2711686ugi.1165491044634; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:30:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy ( [86.140.42.138]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id e34sm720387ugd.2006.12.07.03.30.43; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:30:44 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dual boot install advice Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 11:30:34 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200612070947.00406.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> In-Reply-To: <200612070947.00406.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1270673.NJXu0X1KHa"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200612071130.36981.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 5ffb1cb2-5d7b-441f-bd03-e4bb4046daef X-Archives-Hash: df8fd68dcf4eebf687d20e9e4fddc3db --nextPart1270673.NJXu0X1KHa Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 07 December 2006 08:47, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > 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? That's how I usually go about it on new machines. I can't be a*sed with=20 wasting time on installing WinXP and the resizing/rebooting takes the whole= =20 lot of 15-20 minutes on a slow machine/large drive. It doesn't matter if WinXP rewrites the boot code on the MBR, as the OP sai= d a=20 Linux LiveCD is all you need to reinstall Grub in the MBR. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1270673.NJXu0X1KHa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFd/tc5Fp0QerLYPcRAu6JAJ4sfVYSRjauZ313a39huHRkUKblSQCff9Bb vPerMvE9oMPsbA1XwUYhyTU= =wxrs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1270673.NJXu0X1KHa-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list