On 3 February 2012 15:16, Anthony Anson tony.anson@girolle.co.uk wrote:

Tim Green wrote:

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On 3 February 2012 14:22, Anthony Anson tony.anson@girolle.co.uk wrote:

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And, can I install it on a memory stick on the Acer without XP scribbling all over Squeeze?

XP will let you choose your install partition, so it shouldn't trash the other partitions. It might puke over the MBR, so be prepared to fix that afterwards.

If I install it on the Acer's HDD, it will scribble over everything, whether it concerns it or not.

Is that the recovery/ factory restore install? Booting from an install CD should, after you agree to the EULA, present a white on blue list of disks, partitions and free space.

I *might* just throw together a load of old bits to do the job with... Ta. I might need it -I  haven't installed BillyOS since (IIRC) Win 2000

The XP installer was written in 2001, so it still uses text mode for the first part of the install.

Regards, Tim.