[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
> > well not quite. we used that from win95 on. installed on c: moved to
> > d: and ran it from just there.
> > same with os/2. someone made it to use the /boot/os2_d.b sector with
> > lilo and there we were. thus, with nt it should work also!
>
> True, sort of. The fat filesystem is such a simple structure and set up
> on purpose to make it easy to find IO.SYS that the msdose boot sector
> can find that and chain-boot to it. In effect, part of the bootloader
> is built in to the filesystem. This can only work if the geometry of
> the disk is exactly the same, FI the same device with the jumper moved.
it is the same. i made a 1:1 copy (also for the size, according to
fdisk)
> Also, it has to be BIOS drive 0x80, either by hardware or lilo's
> map-drive option.
how can i influence that?
0x80 is hda1 right?
well then, i shall change it to 0x84 for hda5 then and should be fine,
should i not?
> AFAIK nobody has invented an nt4_d.b yet. If I knew anything about
who invented that thing for os2?
> booting nt I would have a go at it, but I won't buy anything from
> micro$oft just to be able to.
true. i fully share your attitude. it's just that i got this suck crap
on a license from my company in my notebook and i do NOT want to change
the hdds every time i visit clients or go back home to my private linux
life! so all i want is use my beloved linux and that damn nt on one
harddrive. isn't there any light at the tunnel's end?
> > no way. as i do not have it anymore. all i have is my running partition.
>
> do not have what anymore? If your nt partition is running, why do you
> need to be able to boot it?
i do not have any installation disks of any kind. as i said, this is
only a license installation from my company...
> > >
> > > Bist du verr�ckt, oder ich? -- Friedrich der Gr�sse.
> > >
> > du und ich! ... :_-)
>
> The way the joke went when I was studying German, the punch line was,
>
> Beide zugleich!
yes true!
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Also, wie war das denn nochmal?
Da wir jetzt durch eine untaktisch kluge Fuegung eingesehen haben,
dass das mit der Zusammendehnung ein echter Griff ins Klo war,
sehen wir keinen weiteren Grund zur Veranlassung.
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