I have a confession to make: twice, two nights ago, I was celebrating
watching windows boot successfully.

Now, the back fill: it wasn't my laptop and I had just shoved windows
down to just 2G and put linux on the other 2G.  I wanted to move away
from a floppy boot to linux but didn't know if the RH installer would
'save' the windows install or not, since I didn't want to figure out
how to get windows to become sane while "in windows" if it lost
window's boot. 

So, basically, between a remembered HOWTO that says

dd if=/dev/hda of=/tmp/hda-bs bs=512 count=1

and some assorted other partition 512 byte backups, I was in business
when my first go at grub installation from the command line.

When it didn't go clean, I floppy'd to linux, restored the appropriate
boot sector, and whamo, windows was back.  One cheer.  The system
wasn't corrupted so bad I couldn't return the laptop in the condition
I found it in, give or take 2G.

Eventually, when I figured out everything, the second cheer as I could
now floppyless boot to linux or windows.


Out of curioisty, does anyone know of a present laptop that's got an
onboard working mouse-wheely thingy working under linux?  The Sony
NVR23 has a wheely, but the google'd web page said that most
everything worked (including the winmodem!) also said he couldn't find
the appropriate configs for the onboard mouse wheel to work.

David