Help splitting xp hd

[Jerry Snitselaar]

On Saturday 13 September 2008 11:05:58 am George Toft wrote:
> Use gpartd and carve up the disk as desired.  When you boot with XP,
> install on desired partition.  After XP is installed, get the pile of
> Dell disks, and begin the driver installfest.
>
> I have yet to see XP install on a Dell without the driver disk marathon.
> Kudos to Dell for including every driver you need, but they really
> should use hardware that Microsoft knows about so XP can just make it
> work.  Dell is not my favorite vendor.
>
> Good luck.
>
> George
>
> On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 17:23 -0700, eculbert wrote:
> > I have never partitioned an xp hd before. Anything special? It is a
> > 'reformat and re-install' due to corrupted system. Or can you just pop
> > the system dvd in and it will just fix whatever is corrupted on the
> > system?
> >
> > Dell demin. 520? iirc. She loaned it to kids and and and it wont find the
> > onboard nic, but puppylinux and k-5.1.1 does find the world. The screen
> > that should show network hardware is basically blank on xp. And once bsod
> > came up when swapping back and forth on bootups. ran memtest v1.65 off
> > 5.1.1 and one pass, good, no errors, so ram seems okay up to 500mb. 4gigs
> > of ram.
> >
> > But would like to partition about 20 gigs for linux..if I can get a clean
> > copy!! Neighbors 'crashed' system. Something wrong with the system
> > occasional bsod.
> >
> > Ed/ke7feg  ....Hurry up November...enough heat so far!!
> >
> > Did I mention, 2/23/07 the FCC dropped all cw (AKA Morse code) testing
> > for any class of license as a ham? Just pass the written exams.
> >
> >
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If you have a normal XP install cd one thing that can be done to make things a 
bit easier is to use something like nLite which makes creating the customized 
install cd easy. Grab the latest service pack, so you can slipstream it in 
with that program. Then you can build an install CD that has all the drivers 
on it as well as the latest service pack so you don't have to spend a lot of 
time downloading every single update.