> Thanks for that. I do know I will have to repair the grub boot record. > > I'm not sure that VMWare will work for me. The reason I need to > install Windows is that I need to run the Dell Storage Manager to do > some things to a (oldish) Dell disk array connected via fibre > channel. Linux can mount these disks just fine, but there appears to > be no way to manage the array from Linux. So I don't know if Windows > in VMWare on top of Linux could do it. It might, I just don't know. > > It's a long story, the array was set up before me on a Windows > system, which is no longer here. My other option is to move the FC > card to another machine. At this point I haven't decided which is the > easiest way to go. Dell has made a largish amount of software available via a yum repository for several flavors of linux. You may want to check out http://linux.dell.com/yum/software/rhel4/RPMS/ to see if what you need is there to do this on linux. I've not played with the storage manager, and I tend to avoid dell so I can't help out much more than that. -- This message has been double ROT13 encoded for security. Anyone other than the intended recipient attempting to decode this message will be in violation of the DMCA