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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