[CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restoreWinXP?

[Nicolas Sahlqvist]

I top that with another 10 - 20 GB, assume you got a DVD iso to burn,
so you make a copy and due to the effective native copy file feature,
expect a copy to be placed in some temp folder on C: why you need
another 5 - 8 GB free and then the space the DVD occupies.. This is
also true if you copy between 2 SMB shares, even if none of them are
on the local machine, it's neat iand effective isn't it?

On 11/20/07, Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 20, 2007 9:19 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
> <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr> wrote:
> >
> > I think it's been mentioned in the thread, but since you don't talk
> > about this in your summary above: one thing I would recommend is create
> > (at least) 2 partitions for MS: a small (5 to 10 G) for the system, and
> > a larger one for data.
>
> I'd second this, but I'd say it's much better to go in the direction
> of 10G than 5.  I installed WinXP  on a Mac Mini (BootCamp) with 5GB
> on the internal drive and everything else on a firewire external
> drive, and now after about a year of automatic updates that 5GB is so
> nearly consumed that I'm having to shuffle things around by hand to
> keep it working.  It's just too damn difficult to prevent Windows
> software from dumping crap on the C: drive (and then referencing its
> location in the registry so it becomes nearly impossible to relocate
> it).
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