Stephen Boddy
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 15:42, jaska wrote:
Hi
My spouse has a Acer 430-series laptop with XP, and with the resque-CD one can actually partition the HD into 2 pieces, and place for example Linux to the other partition. And it actually works too!
There might be different kind of resque-CDs floating around the market...?
Jaska.
If it's an OEM XP disc set with additional software, you've got no chance. It'll blindly take the whole disk.
Blimey! I could be wrong, but that must be a fairly rare occurence. The ones I've seen and heard about all assume you'll only ever want to run the pre-installed OS. Kudos to Acer. -- stephen/dot/boddy/at/btinternet/dot/com
What I am gethering is there are various M$ rescue CD's, some that play nice and some that don't.... So I think we all would agree that the original poster, Mark Davis should have a back-up stategy which includes the notion that M$ XP might not play nice with his SuSE partition. One way to do this is buy a new hard drive, partition it, install XP on it, repartition if necesaary, and then move his (old) SuSE stuff onto it. (I am wondering why he lost his M$ OS, bad sectors on hard drive, or what ???) There are other ways of doing backups, which have been discussed here at length. but if you expect M$ OS install to trash your SuSE system, and it doesn't is better than the other way around. HAND, Gar -- In the Beginning was the Command Line ---Neal Stephenson -- __________________________________________________________________ New! Unlimited Netscape Internet Service. Only $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Act now to get a personalized email address! Netscape. Just the Net You Need.