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?