On 2008/06/26 00:22 (GMT-0400) Brian K. White apparently typed:
Maybe there is a util on the install cd which the manufacturer didn't supply
No OEM media is a key and the most common problem. #2, AFAIK, there is no such thing as a Vista install CD. IOW, no DVD drive, no Vista installation.
All I can say is, you try it, _then_ say how it's no big deal.
You didn't bother to quote an important part of what I wrote, so I'm not going to confuse anyone by quoting more of your reply. Suffice to say since you didn't quote, either you didn't know the meaning of my words, or you glossed over or dismissed them. I wrote "I have it on good authority that...". That means others with experience (equivalent to my own) I trust did get it to work, *when* (as I also wrote) "you partition 100% in advance...". Not likely you started with a clean disk if you didn't have a Vista install DVD. No clean disk to start with, all bets are off. Vista, given a clean disk, uses the new GUID/GPT partitioning rules (surprise, surprise, surprise; not), but given an already partitioned disk, it obeys (heart attack) the legacy rules Linux & XP play by. -- "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?" Matthew 7:12 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org