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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop
From:       Uwe Thiem <uwix () iway ! na>
Date:       2008-05-06 19:13:25
Message-ID: 200805062013.26135.uwix () iway ! na
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On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Alan McKinnon 

> >  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?

His bloody PXE server installed RH  silently without ever asking 
anything. Jeez.

It gives me ideas, though. One could do that for Linux as well. But 
then, Who would have their Windows laptop set to boot from the 
network first? Still, tempting. ;-)

Uwe

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