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On Monday 25 July 2005 10:21 am, Dave Nebinger wrote: |
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> I've been doing research about finding a way to install windows on my |
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> gentoo box (don't flame me, I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't have to). |
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> I've got a spiffy new 80gb drive which is available at /dev/hdb that I plan |
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> on using as the windows drive. |
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> Most of the dual boot guides suggest adding linux after windows; in my case |
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> I have a working gentoo linux system in place that I don't want to sack, |
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> I'd rather just add windows to the new drive. |
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> Anyone out there have a good pointer for me? |
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> Thanks! |
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> Dave |
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In the past I've had Windows on /dev/hdb1 and used grub to swap the two drives |
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so Windows thinks it is still on the primary hard drive. I no longer have a |
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use for Windows though. So good luck with it. |
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Chris |
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Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP |
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20:18:38 up 1 day, 11:52, 10 users, load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.00 |
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