Installing Windows after Redhat Linux is installed

Arthur Pemberton dalive at flashmail.com
Wed Apr 27 18:06:43 UTC 2005


William M. Quarles wrote:

> 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."
>
Such as?

>>
>> 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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