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Re: [TCLUG:21093] Sony Vaio and System Recovery CDs
Quoting jack@jacku.com (jack@jacku.com):
> I would guess you might be safe. Since the Win2K Setup won't recognize a ext2
> partition you should be able to partition, install linux and then "recover"
> Win2K to the remaining partition. One thing you might want to do is create the
> Win2K "target" as a FAT32 partition and format it. That way it'll find a
> valid, empty partition to install to.
Good call.
I just risked it. :-)
Anywas the recovery cd detected a different partition layout and said
Do you want to delete current disk layout and install? N
Installing on first partition........ <snip>
First partition is the FAT32 partition I created with fdisk.
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