NT4 can only make a 2G FAT partition, but it sometimes pretends otherwise. If
you need more than 2G for NT you need to make it NTFS.
The FAT partition created by NT4 won't format correctly with Linux, so format
it with NT then install linux and tell it NOT to format the NT partition.
NT will happily coexist with Mandrake, but it wants to format its own space.
(Unlike 98, which wants to screw up EVERYones space).
What I did to get all three on one HD is make a 7M /boot partition, then a 2G
FAT, then linux / partition, then another 2G FAT. NT and 98 boot off the
first 2G FAT, but NT actually lives on the second one. After I got 98 and NT
installed I did Mandrakes install and it happily fixed up the MBR and added
the two FAT partitions to its list. Now I can run linux or walk either of the
two windows.
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Last week i bought a box with w98 preloaded. Without thinking
> about it, i took my mdk 6.1 cd (i didn't burned a 7.0 cd yet) and i
> repartitioned the HD to install linux in the PC. Obviously i deleted the
> old w98 installation. i was trying to install wnt4.0 in a separate
> partition. i had NO any problems running linux. But whatever i do, i can't
> even format correctly the fat partition.
>
> i know that lilo can't boot partitions beggining in cylinder
> greater that 1024. i made booteable the partition, i also tried hda1 to be
> the fat partition. but when i format such partition (with dos) it
> recognizes it as if its size would be 2Gb, althought it is 5Gb. After
> reboot, dos does not find c: unit.
>
> many thanks.
>
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