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You've had some very good advice from Mike + Mick, |
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but you can have a bit more re-assurance from me. |
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You shouldn't have a warranty problem if you keep Windows 7 installed. |
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For that, you can easily install Gentoo alongside it. |
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I did that with my Asus netbook, which came with XP : |
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I got XP to tell me how much disk space it was using, |
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then used Systemrescue to shrink the partition to about twice that much |
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-- to be safe & allow for some personal files or programs, |
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if I ever used Windows for anything -- , |
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then installed Gentoo on the remainder (most) of the disk. |
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I used Lilo to dual-boot & XP still works. |
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There was an extra Windows partition which I wiped out, |
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but that didn't affect the ordinary booting of XP. |
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Linux is far better than Losedows & Gentoo the best distro |
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provided you're prepared to put in a bit of time maintaining it. |
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HTH |
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