[BC] Non Sheep

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

Sometimes you need to remove the previous operating system.
I do this by hooking up the drive on one of my Linux Machines
and executing `cp /dev/zero /dev/hdb` (or whatever the drive becomes).

Of course it is possible that some Laptop was designed
exclusively for Windows Vista although, in spite of what the
advertising label on the machine says, I haven't found a
Laptop that won't boot Linux, yet, so I would guess that
the Windows XP install should work as well.

--
Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
Read about my book
http://www.LymanSchool.org


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: wpio <wpio at gate.net>
> RichardBJohnson at comcast.net wrote:
> > I grabbed the Windows XP CDs,
> > just in case I needed to reinstall something that worked,
> 
> On a Compaq laptop (Vista), it wouldn't let us install 
> Windows XP.  It wouldn't allow a format function saying 
> something like, "non legacy drivers."
> 
> And I thought all Vista-shipped machines were that way, but 
> perhaps just laptops.
> 
> Randy
> WPIO
> 
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