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I just bought a computer from someone on craigslist and it has fedora installed, I would like to have windows xp instead, i sent him a text asking for the password and his reply was "format it, and put windows on it" I was wondering if anyone out there would be able to point me in the right direction. any help would be appreciated
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just put your windows cd in and boot up
then install windows
after that you will have to install some drivers
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when i put the windows cd in it only take me to a screen that has all the drives and lists all the PCI device listing eg bus # device # func # and so on... at the bottom of the screen there is a flashing cursor but I cant type anything... i know the keyboard works...and after a while itll just start booting up into fedora... any advice?
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go into the bios and set the cd drive as the first boot device.
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ive tried pressing every f key under the sun along with del and even pause/break none of the suggestions from my google searches have helped, do you know how to get into the bios? the computer is a sony vaio pcv-7732 and like i said before its running fedora, dont know if that matters...
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i just went to sony's website and in the manual http://www.kb.sony.com/selfservice/micr ... 2047060914" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; on lage 16 its says when u press f3 ony the sony screen and f2 option should pop up to allow you to get to bios... i tried this and it didnt work.. any other suggestions for getting into bios?
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How to use OpenVPN on Fedora Core 4 and FreeBSD? I am going to set up OpenVPN to be used between Windows XP, fedora, FreeBSD and Sun. For example, to connect Xp to Fedora. Could someone help me with the setup.
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