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Last year I bought a Dell Inspiron that did not come with any software |
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cd. The drive, came with XP pre-installed as well as a "recovery" |
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partition that you could use to restore the XP partition to factory. Of |
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course it runs Gentoo. What I did was: |
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1. Boot with a live cd (or better yet RIPLinux on a USB stick). |
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2. Back up MBR, parition table, and partitions to DVD, network or |
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external drive. |
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3. Use ntfsresize to shrink the XP partition, make sure it still |
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boots. |
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4. Use the space left over from ntfsresize to create |
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partition(s)/install Gentoo. |
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5. Install GRUB on the MBR. |
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Worked for me. YMMV. I could have also removed the "utility" partition |
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to get more space, since I do have a backup. But I left it on there as |
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I don't really need the space. |
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Albert W. Hopkins |
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