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Hello, |
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I seem to have an adventure every time I set up a dual boot |
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laptop with Windows and Gentoo. |
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The last time I found out that HP will ship you an OEM install |
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CD so after formatting the hard drive (deleting the windows |
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hidden partition) you can put windows on any partition you want |
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and not have the MS running partition conditioning on the linux |
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and grub sectors. Grub is the bootloader/manager. I do not |
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trust MS, but, we still have critical windows software we |
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have to use from time to time. |
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Sony does not offer such a OEM CD. They say I can purchase |
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the Vista CD at retail prices (not fond of this option). |
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Sony does purport to have a good web site for individual device |
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drivers at esupport.sony.com, although I have not used it (yet). |
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Sony also said that XP will run on this new VIAO |
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(model PCG-384L) laptop. I not so sure Vista is better than |
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XP. |
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I want grub as the bootloader. Right now my best option seems to |
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be: purchase a copy of vista or XP from the local university ($30) |
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and install it on a new partition and use Grub as the bootloader. |
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Install Gentoo too. |
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Have I missed anything? Any other comments or insight is most |
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welcome. |
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James |
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