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Why I dont use XP
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by Calum:
okay, i've just never done it that way, that's all. i have a mate with a fucked copy of winXP. his registration has run out, even though he has paid for it, and he just wants to get it off his machine and put a dual windows98/mandrake8.2 install on instead. Do you mean this can be done purely from the mandrake CDs? he is not to tech literate, so the dual boot thing may be the sticking point. I was going to give him a DOS boot disk and a disk with some dos utilities for formatting and partitioning, along with the mandrake CDs, should i not bother confusing him with the DOS disks?
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Well if you are going to dual boot then the general rule of thumb is to install Windows first, then install Linux because Windows has an inferiority complex when there are other things on the drive. In that case you could boot from your Windows CD and blow away the partitions, recreate on the size you want for Windows and leave the rest of the disk for Linux.
If Linux were the only OS to go on the drive then you wouldn't need the other stuff. In fact you "could" do it with Linux but I would suggest forgetting it until after you have Win* installed and you know what to do from there. Sorry, didn't realize you were dual booting...
Calum:
yes, well installing linux would be simple, even for him (this guy has never installed an OS, so maybe he's a punter :D ) anyway, his XP installation may be NTFS, so would installing from win98 CD actually work? not sure, which is why we need to use either DOS partitioning tools, or linux installer, so maybe you know if a win98 install can overwrite an NTFS one? or does anybody else?
voidmain:
You should be able to delete the "unrecognized" partition (which is NTFS) during the Win98 install, or with a boot disk as you originally mentioned.
[ June 06, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
Calum:
ta! ;)
Ctrl Alt Del 123:
With you being a Linux user, I find it hard to believe you couldn't do some of the tings you stated. Usually Linux users are knowledgeable people who know their shit, and since you claim to be one, jesus, did you really use the product at all or make this up?
To remove the dog, CLICK ON HIM, and he will greet you with some options, click the one that says "Turn OFF animated character". Not hard to do.
Removing some MS middleware: you didn't mention it, but you will soon. To uninstall Windows Messenger (the worst of all MS's middleware) go start > run > type in RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove and hit Ok.
So far, you can't remove Windows Media Player and it's a bitch to remove IE, however, they both combined are about 4 MB big, they don't take up much space.
By default, XP has NO desktop shortcuts whatsoever except for the Recycle Bin. But since I think you have an OEM copy from your PC manufacture, they have added all kinda crap. Just right click your desktop > properties > go to the Desktop tab > click the "customize button"
brb
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