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Bryce Verdier wrote: |
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> I can say that back int the redhat 6.3 days, i was able to get redhat |
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> to boot from the NT4 loader. And i could have sworn that there was a |
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> HOWTO on the LDP, but i can't find it now. |
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> So at least 5 or 6 years ago it could have been done. But with such |
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> nice bootloaders as grub and lilo, why would you want to bother with |
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> XP's... just create a boot disk for XP, just in case you hose grub, |
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> and you'll always be safe. |
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> bryce |
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If grub gets hosed, you can boot a Win 98 CD or a boot floppy and run |
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fdisk /mbr on it. I recently took a hard drive of mine out of a friends |
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computer that was dual booting and that was what I did. Now windoze XP |
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boots up like Linux was never there. I'm not sure if you can do that |
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from the win XP CD or not though. I'm not a windoze person. I don't |
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have and never had windoze, ever. |
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Dale |
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:-) |
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To err is human, I'm most certainly human. |
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I have four rigs: |
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1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker |
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2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty |
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3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey |
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4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput |
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All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. |
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