[Techtalk] RE: [Newchix] W2k NTFS and RHL 7.0

[Conor Daly]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 01:43:59PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Samantha Blackmon thought:
> On Saturday 16 March 2002 05:51 am, a magikal owl from Conor Daly delivered 
> this message:
> >
> > Did you need to reactivate XP?  My boss has a new XP machine (100Gb in a
> > single NTFS partition) and wnats to install RH.  Only way I can think of
> > is to nuke the existing partition, make new smaller ones and do the
> > install but I'm afraid WinXP will demand a reactivation because of the
> > smaller disk.  Of course, my advice ot boss would be to dump WinXP
> > entirely and install Win98 if he *must* have windows at all.
> >
> > Conor
> I had a 80GB XP hard drive and rather than nuking the NTFS partition I used 
> Partition Magic to create new Linux and swap partitions without damaging the 
> info on the XP partition. I would however also recommend 98 over XP which is 
> extremely buggy!

But he _is_ the boss and he's got this "new" OS to play with...  Still,
I'll keep working on him...

Conor
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Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

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