edju wrote:
> I went to Circuit City to look at laptops. All come with Vista. When I
> mentioned to the salesman that I don't use Windo$e but Linux, he said that
> there is no way to install Linux on a Vista machine. Something about the
> file system, NFFS. I then said that I would partition and format the disk
> anyway so the Vista file system shouldn't matter. He said it does
> anyway, and furthermore that any live CD would not recognize the hard
> drive or, indeed, any of the hardware, which is Vista-specific somehow.
> He said one could not even install XP on a Vista machine. Finally, any
> fooling with the disk would render the "recovery" CDs (DVDs?) unbootable.
> Does this make sense? Anybody dual-booting with Vista? Are drivers
> available?

I do dualbooting with Debian and Vista on my Notebook and can't agree on
any of this problems except - to some extend - with the recovery-CDs.
Vista seems to have trouble booting on a Machine with an damaged
NTFS-Partition (damaged mine by shrinking the partition via gparted, low
level formating helps here).

Christoph


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