Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 00:57:22 -0800 From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.berkeley.edu> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chip <chip@wiegand.org>, "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why dual boot? Message-ID: <20020126005722.A77604@HAL9000.wox.org> In-Reply-To: <3C5269A3.2FAB735B@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 12:32:35AM -0800 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>
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Thus spake Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>: > 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
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