On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, anton wrote:
>
> >Very interesting for people creating dual boot systems, the other system
> >being a proper os. Keeping the thread on topic.
> >
> gotta love that...
>
> >
> >Questions.
> >1. Was XP installed onto this 2gig partition or was an existing XP
> >installation's partition split?
> >
> installed from freshly wiped HD. (2 gig fat32 created from disk
> management inside XP), then Linuces (:-0) added after that.
Very sensible. Did that on my laptop using a dos 6.22 floppy. Agreed
that you can go well down with fat32. It is NTFS that is the problem.
> >2. What kind of XP was used? OEM, full retail version, rescue disks?
> >
> >
> full something version
So there are some XP versions that have a suitable disk manager.
Phil.
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