{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Bit Shift (bitshift)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jul-12 00:40:14 UTC","author_name":"Bit Shift (bitshift)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/bitshift","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/1700246","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/6766\" class=\"url\" title=\"Toksyuryel\"><span class=\"fn nickname\">toksyuryel<\/span><\/a><\/span> I'm pretty sure I can get something to boot from a CD once I get my old portable DVD drive hooked up again. But then I have a second problem in that this machine never came with a Windows install disc, so I have to hope it's already GPT-partitioned - no current distro I know of works correctly with both a DOS-style partition table and a UEFI bootloader (whereas Windows does, so it's entirely possible that's the out-of-box configuration of this system); I'm not yet willing to totally blow away the copy of Windows on here without some way of reinstalling it once the disk's reformatted."}