Re: Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>Of Kai Schaetzl
>Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 3:32 PM
>To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re:  Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed
>
>Instead of using grub-install you can backup the mbr before the installation
>and then restore it afterwards. You can easily get bad results from that if
>you mistype, though.

Generally speaking, which one is the easiest and/or safest if time is an issue 
and you want to things fast and streamlined doing this, grub-install or backup 
and restore MBR. That is assuming I don't screw up when I do either and 
mistype or something.

Or are both things different sides of the same coin kinda' thing?
-- 
/Sorin

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