Re: Any suggestions and advice welcome

On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 02:15 +0000, Michael Soibelman wrote:
Installing Windows might be difficult this way for HP/Compaq computers
that do not provide OS disks but rather have a full restoration technique
(read
that full erasure and installation) from a hidden D: drive partition. I
don't think it will ever see the Linux partition.

Do you have any experience with this? And I just heard that Dell is
starting to do that too.


P.S. As I stated above there are other solutions available for free such
as XEN but I don't have experience with them.

Enjoy.

P.S. #2. Using that other OS in this virtual machine will help isolate
the bad things that can happen to you from your good Linux system.

So it seems Hp and Dell really screw there customers this way ! Yes I've
seen boxes with these so called recovery disks. They STINK! If you really
must use Windows you're better off getting the retail version as to avoid
your situation. If I'm not mistaken those systems also use 'middleware'
which just makes for another layer (software) which causes problems in and
of itself. I, for one, will stick to building my own computers and when/if
need be, installing MS$ systems in a virtual machine or more likely on an
old machine separate from my 'real' computers....

Actually, HP and Dell recovery CDs are some of the better ones.

The retail version of Windows XP does not necessarily have the drivers
to even be able to be installed onto newer hardware.... thus the reason
for OEM "recovery" CD's and the such.

I agree that the best solution is to eliminate Windows altogether
though, or at least put it inside of a virtual machine hosted on
Linux. The virtual machine abstracts the hardware so that a
retail version of Windows CAN be installed without issue.


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