My original post was not about dual booting in general but about Vista RC1 specifically, which only requested a simple yes or no answer from any of the numerous people on this site who have obviously installed Vista RC1. I haven't even received as little as a nod in response to a very simple...
I asked a similar question a few days ago here, and still haven't recieved a responce
at this time, the only way I can boot into vista is to leave the DVD in the drive, and remove it to boot into XP
That's up to you. It's been so long since I've felt the need to use one, I wouldn't even know what to recommend anymore. I'm sure some quick searches with your favorite search engine should provide you with something useful :-)
no, it will end in .iso, which you can then burn to DVD as an image
the .dlm was a temporary file extension left behind by the download manager that should have been removed after successful completion of the download
If it takes you that long to download 2.52 GB, then just grab a 3rd party download manager and download the .iso directly, as you said :-)
the easiest was to check md5 hashes on windows is probably with digestIT: http://digestit.kennethballard.com/
the site provides a MD5 hash so you can verify you download isn't corrupted. Just run md5sum on the file and compare the number with the one given by Microsoft.
The .dlm should not be there once the download completes, which makes me think it's not dowloading correctly. There are direct links...
idealy, you should get a normal Windows CD and boot into the recovery console to use 'fixmbr'
you can also get an old bootable DOS floppy and use fdisk to write a new mbr with "fdisk /mbr". IIRC this method isn't compatiable with XP, but it will wipe the MBR clean. If you use this method...
Installed Vista RC1 last night and was surprised to find that Vista doesn't seem to have touched the original mbr installed by XP. XP is still installed and boots as if Vista was never installed. However, when the DVD I used to install Vista is in the drive, Vista is loaded automatically without...
I know how to check a burned disk against it's iso in Linux using 'cmp', I'm not sure how to go about it Windows
You should also compare the md5sum of your iso against the value provided by Microsoft to ensure your iso isn't corrupted. If they didn't provide a md5sum value, then shame on them.
Both Windows XP and 2k can read and write to FAT32 partitions by default. NT4 on the otherhand, can't read FAT32 without 3rd party software.
Wreckage, almost all Linux distros can read NTFS out-of-the-box, but until very recently the ability to write to NTFS was rather unstable
i assume you want to install vista onto the XP partion(s). Vista will likely overwrite the bootloader like every version of Windows before it. After you install vista you will have to reinstall grub. This might be helpful...
personally I would just edit the hosts file and have myspace point to 127.0.0.1 so all connections simply time out, and then set the hosts file as read-only. Note that you have to have lines for each of myspace's subdomains as well. simply rerouting myspce.com wont block everything. The hosts...
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