Dual boot (XP) best practice

[Michael Steigerwald]

Victory!

I have met the enemy and he is me! Occam's Razor and I don't get along well.

The Reader's Digest version is that I reinstalled edubunu, but cleared the
partition table and then preprended a FAT32 partition ahead of edubuntu.
Most of the suggestions should have accomplished the same thing, but all's
well that ends well.

Thanks to all for joining me for my mental meandering.

On 2/28/07, Michael Steigerwald <mikesteigerwald at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't have a floppy drive, and it never seems to recognize the "boot USB
> memory sticks" I've tried.
>
> The next time I'm near a CD burner, I'm going to try the Hitachi site that
> Robert suggested.
>
> I think it's still under warranty, but it's going to be a while before I
> can be in the same place as the computer and a phone long enough for a
> support call during work hours. (I'm offsite at MySQL training). So, I'm
> piece-mealing and flying by the seat of my pants until then.
>
> On 2/28/07, Simon Ruiz <sruiz at mccsc.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Ugh. I know that, especially with SATA drives, sometimes you need to get
> > drivers from the manufacturer and have them on a floppy disk (do you even
> > have a floppy drive?) for the Windows Installer to be able to work with
> > unrecognized hardware.
> >
> > A big PITA, if you don't mind me saying, but usually possible.
> >
> > Take a look at http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org/how_do_i_install_windows_xp_on_a.htm
> >
> >
> > Is the Installer CD you're trying to use some sort of recovery disc that
> > came with the hardware? I'm guessing not, cause those should definitely have
> > all the correct drivers on them.
> >
> > The other possibility is that you're having some form of hardware
> > malfunction, if the CD that's supposedly custom-made for that hardware
> > configuration (I'm assuming this, if you're getting a repair disc from
> > Lenovo) is having issues with ram disk and crashing when you try to run the
> > formatting tool.
> >
> > Out of curiosity, do you happen to still be under warranty? This is one
> > of those situations where a little chat with the hardware providers might be
> > worthwhile. They would probably be able to tell you whether this is some
> > sort of hardware failure, or maybe it's an issue other owners of that
> > hardware configuration have had before...
> >
> > Ubuntu installs and works flawlessly on it, you say? Score one for the
> > home team.
> >
> > Sim?n
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > From: Michael Steigerwald [mailto: mikesteigerwald at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Wed 2/28/2007 11:05 AM
> > To: Simon Ruiz
> > Cc: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Subject: Re: Dual boot (XP) best practice
> >
> >
> > FWIW, it's a SATA disk.
> >
> > I've downloaded the repair CD image from Lenovo and can boot from it.
> > However, it complains about an error using RAM disk. It crashes whenever I
> > try FDISK32. I wonder if the CD image is bad, so I'm going to try a fresh
> > one.
> >
> > TIA for any additional suggestions.
> >
> >
> > On 2/27/07, Simon Ruiz <sruiz at mccsc.edu> wrote:
> >
> >         You can find photos of the different connector types below:
> >         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_Attachment - IDE
> >         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA
> >
> >         If the Windows CD's fdisk can see the hard disk, though, it
> > shouldn't be a driver problem. I haven't the slightest clue why the
> > Installer wouldn't be able to see something Microsoft's fdisk can see...
> >
> >         Is there perhaps some form of "factory formatting" option in
> > fdisk? I dunno, I'm grasping at straws here...
> >
> >         Simón
> >
> >         ________________________________
> >
> >         From: Michael Steigerwald [mailto: mikesteigerwald at gmail.com]
> >         Sent: Tue 2/27/2007 3:01 PM
> >         To: Simon Ruiz
> >         Subject: Re: edubuntu-users Digest, Vol 9, Issue 20
> >
> >
> >         Thanks for the complement.
> >
> >         I assume it's IDE, but I don't really know how to tell.
> >
> >         The fdisk I'm referring to is what I run from the installer
> > command shell I get into from the Rescue a Broken System startup option.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Michael Steigerwald
> > 4041 12th Ave S.
> > Minneapolis, MN 55407-3239
> > Steiger at UMich.edu
> > 651.261.2098
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Michael Steigerwald
> 4041 12th Ave S.
> Minneapolis, MN 55407-3239
> Steiger at UMich.edu
> 651.261.2098
>



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Michael Steigerwald
4041 12th Ave S.
Minneapolis, MN 55407-3239
Steiger at UMich.edu
651.261.2098
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