From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sean darcy Subject: howto for installing vista from recovery partition? Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:27:44 -0500 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:49695 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752363AbZBUSaD (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:30:03 -0500 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Lawby-0006yu-O9 for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:30:02 +0000 Received: from adsl-99-155-206-231.dsl.wlfrct.sbcglobal.net ([99.155.206.231]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:30:02 +0000 Received: from seandarcy2 by adsl-99-155-206-231.dsl.wlfrct.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:30:02 +0000 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I've got a new laptop with vista installed, and a vista recovery partition. I'd like to delete the existing windows partition ( leaving the recovery partition), install Fedora, setup kvm, and then install vista from the recovery partition in kvm. Is this doable? Can someone point my to a howto/wiki? Or am I stuck dual booting? sean