On Tuesday, 20 November 2007, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr> wrote: <snip> >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. Nicholas: Our other boxes have four (4) partitions for Windows. I've never installed Windows on this box, because it came from the factory with WinXp in Spanish. I reduced the NTFS partition in size, to make room for CentOS, but it's still running what came on it, out of the Dell factory. Last week, I got an English language WinXP from Dell, so I'm ready to roll in English now and do it properly on this one too! >then use norton/symantec ghost to generate images of your system Several of our boxes have had Removable EIDE drive units in them (made by CRU) and I used those, before I began using Linux, to make images, and that was a great thing to do. I got lazy about making the backups and found it easier to backup over the network. I didn't use Norton Ghost, I used something else, but as I write this, I can't recall the name of the Utility I used to make the images. As I recall, at that time (a few years ago), Norton was more difficult to use and I'd read something about some unreliable results from Ghost. >you can probably do this with linux tools as well if you don't want to buy ghost. Yes. I will do everything possible with Linux tools in the future. Thank you! Lanny