Some OEM disks give you no alternative but to format all. Such as a
recovery partition. Always XP first.

deface

On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 01:27 +0000, James wrote:
> Michael Higgins <linux <at> evolone.org> writes:
>
>
> > I have a laptop with a spare partition waiting for WinXP, to install
> > from Dell OEM disks that came originally.
>
> > Is this possible? I understand XP will overwrite the MBR. So, I'd have
> > to re-install grub & that's it? '-)
>
> The easiest thing to do is install XP first. Then use the microsoft utilities
> (I forget the name) to shrink down the size of the partition (usually about
> 50%). Then install Gentoo in the space that XP is not occupying.
>
>
> James
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