Installing Windows after Redhat Linux is installed
William M. Quarles
quarlewm at jmu.edu
Wed Apr 27 14:30:14 UTC 2005
Marc M wrote:
> The smartest way, is just to go ahead and load windows first, if you
> really really really need it. Save some space on the hard drive, say at
> least 10G would be nice. Then the redhat installer will play nice with
> windoze.
>
> Otherwise if you load linux first, windows tries to be a bully and erase
> everything, still symptomatic of a 'everything is windows' mentality
> that permeates a company with an address of One Microsoft Way.
> Hopefully that will change in the future and the windows installer will
> start living in the 21st century.
>
> By the way there is nothing that windows can do that linux can't do, you
> can download open office from the website openoffice.org
> <http://openoffice.org>, and get a full featured office suite that is
> top notch.
>
>
> Marc
>
Last time I checked OpenOffice was lacking a lot of useful features in
the spreadsheet program that Excel has. I would hardly call the
spreadsheet program "top notch."
>
> On 4/26/05, *NDUMISO MKHWANAZI* <NDUMISO.MKHWANAZI at treasury.kzntl.gov.za
> <mailto:NDUMISO.MKHWANAZI at treasury.kzntl.gov.za>> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> A computer was donated to my wife's school . It has Redhat
> Linux/Fedora preinstalled . How can you install WindowsXP and
> OfficeXP,on the computer as this is what the kids are already familiar
> with ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ndumi
>
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