Re: boot from cd

Stijn Vander Maelen <[email protected]> Fri, 18 Oct 2002 00:06:03 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.newbies
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On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 04:51:25PM -0500, Glenn Murphy wrote:
> Well, if I completely reformatted my hard drives (I don't want winxp
> anymore and do want to switch back to win2k (until I'm fully ready (and
> get my family ready (if it ever happens)) to switch over to linux))
> could I install gentoo first, on a say 10gb partition (as well as the
> swap, etc.) and then win2k on the rest?  Or would I have the same
> problem with win2k even if I do it like that?

best that you install windows first and then the linux, windows tends to rewrite your
boot record. when you do linux at a later time grub can do it's work
also, 10 gig is rather small...

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