I'm running Windows 2000 Server on my machine now so I believe that I cannot
use linx4win. Is this true? The only 2 options are to use NTFS and FAT when
installing Windows 2000 Server. I'm having a really difficult time with the
installation on top of this. Whenever I try the graphical installation the
mouse does not work and whenever I try the text installation the keyboard
does not work. I looked at the BIOS to see if there was anywhere to turn of
Plug 'n Play but I don't seem to have an option (is it called something else
that I may not know?). Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you,
Greg
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 02:21:23 +0000, civileme wrote:
On Monday 09 July 2001 19:27, Greg Partin wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Is it possible to install Mandrake 7.2 on a system with NTFS as its file
> allocation method? If not, is it possible to switch to FAT without
having
> to reinstall everything? Thanks and much obliged.
>
> Greg
>
>
>
>
The NTFS filesystem, no. It is proprietary and secret and our best
drivers
just read and (experimenatlly write to it)
It is possible to do a system with FAT, but a very bad idea. ext2 keeps
fragmentation low by design, and doesn't use a defragmenter, and there are
none currently available under linux for FAT32, and , as often as linux
hits
the disk with small (less than 1k) files, FAT32 would be overwhelmed and
severely fragmented in just a day or two.
Windows would directly see those partitions and complain that they were
malformed or contained corrupt data and some wizard would likely offer to
"fix" them. Or windows would flat refuse to boot on a dual boot system
because all the corrupt filesystems would first have to be formatted.
You can achieve a similar effect by using lnx4win.
Civileme
>
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