--- Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan: > lnx4win? I thought this died when 8.0 was released. It was aimed at > Windows users who wanted to experiment with Linux without > experiencing the thrill of repartitioning, and it was never > intended to be anything except a tool for experimentation. I never > tried it, but I understand that it was glacially > slow and somewhat buggy, and, in marketing-speak, turned out to be > an answer to a question that nobody had asked.
Lol!! :) > My 2 cents: Set aside some of that extra 20 gb for Mandrake and do a > normal installation. Mandrake will take care of the dual-booting. > (I know how to do it with win9x, but not 2K; I'll leave that to > others.) One thought: Linux can read and write to FAT16 and FAT32 > partitions, but it can't write to the NT-based filesystems native > to win2k. Therefore, create a common FAT32 partition for data that > you want to share between Mandrake and windows. The "no man's land." Yep, that's exactly what I've got here. Cept it's a whole separate drive. Handy for archiving and saving /etc and /home data when you bungee jump into a new version number. L8r, LX __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
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