Re: Installing Windows after Redhat Linux is installed

From: William M. Quarles (quarlewm_at_jmu.edu)
Date: 04/27/05

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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:30:14 -0400

    Marc M wrote:

    > The smartest way, is just to go ahead and load windows first, if you
    > really really really need it. Save some space on the hard drive, say at
    > least 10G would be nice. Then the redhat installer will play nice with
    > windoze.
    >
    > Otherwise if you load linux first, windows tries to be a bully and erase
    > everything, still symptomatic of a 'everything is windows' mentality
    > that permeates a company with an address of One Microsoft Way.
    > Hopefully that will change in the future and the windows installer will
    > start living in the 21st century.
    >
    > By the way there is nothing that windows can do that linux can't do, you
    > can download open office from the website openoffice.org
    > <http://openoffice.org>, and get a full featured office suite that is
    > top notch.
    >
    >
    > Marc
    >

    Last time I checked OpenOffice was lacking a lot of useful features in
    the spread*** program that Excel has. I would hardly call the
    spread*** program "top notch."

    >
    > On 4/26/05, *NDUMISO MKHWANAZI* <NDUMISO.MKHWANAZI@treasury.kzntl.gov.za
    > <mailto:NDUMISO.MKHWANAZI@treasury.kzntl.gov.za>> wrote:
    >
    > Hello
    >
    > A computer was donated to my wife's school . It has Redhat
    > Linux/Fedora preinstalled . How can you install WindowsXP and
    > OfficeXP,on the computer as this is what the kids are already familiar
    > with ?
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > Ndumi
    >
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