[ltp] Installing XP from recovery discs?

[Peter Lemken]

Hi,

after receiving the full 8 CD set of recovery disks from IBM I wiped my R51's 
harddrive clean and partitioned it for exclusive Linux use. 

Now I need to have Windows installed and from reading the documentation I 
could not find a way to simply install XP Professional without losing my 
Linux partitions. What I saw was that you could either restore the original 
state of the HD from CD, losing all other partitions or start the rescue and 
recovery process from disk and have windows installed on C:\ without losing 
other partitions.

Since I do not have anything left on the HD except Linux, the last option 
obviously doesn't work, does it? What other suggestions do you have to get XP 
Pro onto the HD other than buying a new copy?


TIA


Peter Lemken
Berlin