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fli4l: kernel panic
It never gives me the option to partition a drive. When I log onto the reduced fucntionality mode, and access the XP installation disc, click setup in the disc's folder: either the Install Windows XP link is not highlilghted, or when it is, i click Install Windows XP, it states: set up cannot continue because the

Moving from W2k to XP with a Big HD
When I install XP, I always, immediately shut "system restore" OFF. I learned the hard way not to trust it. Read that again. You cannot backup to the same partition you are creating a backup image of. The file has to go on a different partition. This target partition will get so large that backing it up is

Reinstall Windows
The other will Install discQuest and a monospace font (CoPilot.8) to hard disk plus, if desired, several support files. I archived the data from every floppy I have plus files from each hard drive partition. A few items were archived twice; but, this way, I can choose from a 'raw' original or 'set up' version.

Can I restore Windows 98 from an USB external CR-rom drive?
I then installed Vista on another partition and moved over there. I still want to revive this one. I did the following things: Tried to install with repair option XP from a totally different DVD with a different product key. No connection. I uninstalled and installed all Windows Component that seem to be related to

Tiger On Wallstreet
I do not know grub well, so cannot guide you, but it is possible to tell grub which operating system to boot by default, and how long to wait to allow you to choose which OS you want to boot. If the boot and MBR fails as it dit one time for when I installed Linux I just had to make a temporarilly install of XP to

GRUB breakdown
As most of us know, the XP operating system cannot partition/format a hard drive in FAT32 greater than 32 GB. One *can*, however, use the FDISK/FORMAT commands on a Install the mkdosfs.exe file (it’s only 68 KB) in your C:\ root directory. 2.. Ensure that the drive to be formatted FAT32 is not presently being

Can I restore Windows 98 from an USB external CR-rom drive?
Microsoft confirms this issue but maintains that it is a fundamental function of the way XP works and cannot be changed. The solution, Microsoft maintains, is to install Windows Vista on a separate physical drive, not a partition, and make it invisible to XP.

Anybody here with HP hacking skills?
... the following error: "rpm: error while loading shared libraries: librpm-4.4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" see above I copied over some of these files to a memory card using Knoppix (won't allow me to write to any Linux partition) using the files from the Mandriva install DVD,

Wallstreet Booting Problems
You cannot expand the windows partition, to utilise the full disk size, if you have installed with a sp level of win that doesnt support large disks, I had some fun trying to get to a point where the OS install asked how I wanted to partition the drive. I was stumped by this window that came up in the install:

Uninstall Vista w/out loosing data
You will need to boot the computer with the x64 dvd since you cannot run the x64 Setup from the x86 desktop. A Custom installation takes only a few minutes. It is an upgrade that takes a Can I maintain the existing 32-bit home premium and install the 64-bit next to it, using the same partition for data on both?

Convert new HP 32bit Vista home premium to Vista 64bit Ultimate
But went to rebuild (6.2) and got caught in a loop -- note, that´sa loop -- in these steps: -- Select Drive -- FDISK Partition Editor ("Q") -- Install Boot Manager If I cannot rebuild, can I just add the ports? What about changing pw? 1) I'm not sure what you mean about "rebuild" - I wouldn't ever need fdisk or

My Rebuild Problem
... issues with software licenses, only by allowing designers and programmers to ensure that each partition is well defined rules of syntax and semantics. Internet Explorer, checks at installation time for WGA, hence users cannot install it on Linux systems which use Wine, without modifying the Internet for

Windoz Install CD and Linux?
But went to rebuild (6.2) and > got caught in a loop -- note, that´sa loop -- in these steps: -- Select Drive -- FDISK Partition Editor ("Q") -- Install Boot Manager I would prefer to rebuild (note: rebuild) because I want to add X Windows (that´s ADD X) and I´d rather not > have to rebuild the kernel.

I want to migrate to Linux
I cannot update, and I am abandoning the effort. I never do the update, always pick custom clean install. Yes, but since all I was really after was the two packages I had removed, I thought it might go faster. The initial install was to a clean partition. Of course, the installer decided to overwrite everything.

Cannot boot to safe mode AT ALL
As most of my software is not compatible with Vista, I want to instaal XP Home or on another partition and a boot manager either on the C and delete Vista completely. Problem is: XP install starts but ends with a bleu screen after some files are loaded Start op met de XP-CD en verwijder aan het begin van de

winload.exe file missing or corrupt
I keep them there and thats it.. lol no install ever needed... NOT ALL PROGRAMS CAN WORK THIS WAY, for example Office cannot work this way. now as for your other question of course you can save space.. you create a partition or drive and you install from both OS onto that sample place in the parition for example

Leopard on G4 AGP?
W2K still cannot see the installation (disk unformatted or damaged), so I killed the boot partition and tried to recreate it in W2K, but I'm getting partition too big. The partition I'm trying to create is 8 GB and is NTFS. Disk is set to Auto in the BIOS (always was), so it should not be a size recognition issue.

Reinstall Windows
Now i am trying to install those things but copying rpm from Server directory and installing but it doesnt work(too many dependencies), is there a way i can use yum The result is that tools such as Dell's installers that create system utilities and a bootable recovery partition as part of your OS installation

WPI pisses me off!
... grub-install /dev/sda aufgerufen und fertig. Dachte ich. Das Problem ist nun, dass ich bei Auswahl eines Eintrags (egal welcher, ob direkt einen Linuxkernel, oder einen anderen Bootloader aus einer Partition), der "savedefault" enthält ich von Grub Error 28 bekomme "Selected item cannot fit into memory".

HD problems
There is no "/mnt/sysimage" because the rescue system cannot 'find' a RedHat installation. The rescue system finds the RedHat installation by looking for an installation the root partition failes such that I'm not even able to mount it in rescue mode, I'm doing a fresh install and restore files from backup.