on 3-19-2008 8:34 AM bruce spake the following: > hey scott... > > are you sure about the installation of windows drivers, not affecting the installation of linux. aren't there a number of cases where in order to install hardware on linux, you 1st need the windows drivers? > > might it be possible that the article/advice the poster was following was with regards to obtaining drivers for the sata controller/drive to be used under linux?? > Anything is possible, but I actually did read the article, so that doesn't apply here. It was to get an AHCI driver for XP on a certain asus MB for speed reasons. I try to not talk out of my behind unless I happen to get into the bourbon first, but that is also not the case here. And needing to download a windows driver for some kind of emulation like ndiswrapper doesn't mean you need to install it in windows, or even have a copy of windows. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080319/7034022d/attachment-0004.sig>