[ale] Install on Fresh Machine - Opinions?

Thu Dec 21 11:30:34 EST 2000

You can indeed specify where to install Windows...you just have to do a custom install.  You can tell it D:\windows (for hda2 for example), or wherever.  Just make sure to create the partitions *first* using fdisk, let Windows do its little voodoo, and you'll be set.

jenn

>>> Dan Newcombe <Newcombe at mordor.clayton.edu> 12/21 11:07 AM >>>
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, JB Wells wrote:
> The problem with this is that Windows will only
> install in the first partition on the disk.  It's been
> awhile since I've done an install such as this, so
> correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that if you
> have multiple partitions, Windows won't install
> anywhere other than the first partition.  If you
> installed linux in the first partition, Windows will
> indeed *trash* this installation.

Hmmm...interesting...have to try that sometime.  As far as I remember, and
it's been a while for me as well, Windows will install into the first DOS
partition (what it considers the C:) drive, but that is it.

Now I'm curious to try this but can't find a suitable machine to try it
on.

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