On or about Sat, 1 Sep 2001 12:22:21 -0500 Mark Browne reportedly said... > Some random thought have come to me as I read about the coming XP invasion. > If anyone on the newsgroup has given micro$soft any free time to test the > product you may already know the answer. > > 1) If XP auto-detects the environment as part of determining if it has been > moved to a new machine does it do anything bad to folks who re-partition to > add Linux? AFAIK, The hardware environment is only hardware - it does not include things like the structure of the partition table. > 2) Do they mess with the partition is any way so adding Linux will break the > system?