Re: [gentoo-user] Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
>  > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Alan McKinnon
>  <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
>  > > On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
>  > >  > Good luck. After backing up my Gentoo laptop install I can
>  > >  > confirm that the HP Recovery Disk that comes with the laptop
>  > >  > blows the whole disk away and reformats it like it was new from
>  > >  > the factory. With this disk anyway there was no way to get Vista
>  > >  > onto the disk and save the existing Gentoo install. that will
>  > >  > have to be reloaded form backups.
>  > >
>  > >  Piffle, that's nothing. At least your Windows installer would have
>  > > given you a prompt.
>  >
>  > I don't follow Alan.
>  >
>  > The HP recovery disk boots and asks somethng like 'Do you want to
>  > restore the disk to the way it was shipped from HP?" Answer no and it
>  > does nothing. Answer yes and if blows away all partitions, builds two
>  > new partitions, and puts the HP image on the disk.
>  >
>  > I don't follow what you mean?
>
>  It's a bizarre joke after a bizarre day :-)
>
>  The Windows recovery disk at least prompts you to answer yes. The Red
>  Hat PXE server doesn't.
>
>  The joke's on me - I was the one who installed that PXE server ...
>
OK, thanks to you and Uwe for explaining.

- Mark
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