From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 26 0:58: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from HAL9000.wox.org (12-232-222-90.client.attbi.com [12.232.222.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E993B37B416 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 00:58:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dschultz@localhost) by HAL9000.wox.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g0Q8vMd77742; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 00:57:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz) Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 00:57:22 -0800 From: David Schultz To: Terry Lambert Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , Brett Glass , chip , "f.johan.beisser" , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why dual boot? Message-ID: <20020126005722.A77604@HAL9000.wox.org> Mail-Followup-To: Terry Lambert , Giorgos Keramidas , Brett Glass , chip , "f.johan.beisser" , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <20020123114658.A514@lpt.ens.fr> <20020123223104.SM01952@there> <3C4FBE5C.2AE8C65@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020124213809.00e6e5d0@localhost> <20020125131659.GB7374@hades.hell.gr> <3C51CD33.4E69B204@mindspring.com> <20020125143213.A70659@HAL9000.wox.org> <3C51E7ED.25FF34BA@mindspring.com> <20020125190153.A71616@HAL9000.wox.org> <3C5269A3.2FAB735B@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C5269A3.2FAB735B@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 12:32:35AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thus spake Terry Lambert : > The vendor sets up the Windows XP preinstalled on the system. > > The preinstall uses all the disk space, because there's no > reason not to with the XP FS (NTFS). > > The "rescue" disk uses "Norton Ghost" to overwrite the entire > drive with a new image that has XP installed this way. Compaq used to ship their cheaper desktop systems with a CD that writes a drive image instead of a Windows CD. Thus, you could delete a single system file and have to wipe everything out, and you couldn't move Windows to a larger disk. It pissed the hell out of me. > If you're interested: the !@#$@%! "Norton Ghost" just > writes the disk, without writing the partition table, > unless the partition table isn't there already. It works well for what it was designed to do, namely, making (almost) exact clones of OS installations. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message