it's here, it's here!
Jan. 29th, 2003 02:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciphergothMy laptop arrived!
BTW tip for anyone else curious: it turns out that WinXP ships as a FAT32 filesystem, but reformats to NTFS on first boot. There is no warning and no option to stop the reformat - three fingered salute, pulling the plug and jabbing the power button did nothing. Thus if you want to repartition without buying PartitionMagic, you must boot first from a floppy and run FIPS before Windows has a chance to run.
Dammit.
Update oh, and this machine has no floppy or CDROM drive. The only way I can see to boot Linux is over the net. I can see I have a serious challenge ahead.
Update or by making a bootable CompactFlash card. I think. The laptop has a dedicated CF slot, but I don't know if it can boot from it. Update It can't. It refuses to try and create a bootable CF card. Windows 98 is happy to, but the laptop then refuses to boot from it. Arse; back to the netboot.
BTW tip for anyone else curious: it turns out that WinXP ships as a FAT32 filesystem, but reformats to NTFS on first boot. There is no warning and no option to stop the reformat - three fingered salute, pulling the plug and jabbing the power button did nothing. Thus if you want to repartition without buying PartitionMagic, you must boot first from a floppy and run FIPS before Windows has a chance to run.
Dammit.
Update oh, and this machine has no floppy or CDROM drive. The only way I can see to boot Linux is over the net. I can see I have a serious challenge ahead.
Update or by making a bootable CompactFlash card. I think. The laptop has a dedicated CF slot, but I don't know if it can boot from it. Update It can't. It refuses to try and create a bootable CF card. Windows 98 is happy to, but the laptop then refuses to boot from it. Arse; back to the netboot.
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Date: 2003-02-09 06:02 pm (UTC)AIUI, no. I've used this before on Win98 machines simply to save the bother of making CDs, but loadlin doesn't work at all on XP machines and probably can't.