I have W2K NTFS and numerous Ext2 Linux OS's on the same hard drive(s) and have no trouble sharing data so why the VFAT partition ?
John John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 17 March 2002 12:30 am, you wrote: > Joe, > > this is a "no problem" scenario. Just go ahead and install 8.1 on the > slave and let lilo install as it wants during the 8.1 install and it > will work. I have XP and 8.1 dual booting and there was nothing special > required during the install. Just worked. > > Make sure you allocate a VFAT partition somewhere along the line though, > so you can use it to share data bn XP and LM. That is assuming XP is on > NTFS. You can mount the NTFS for reading from LM, but writing is maybe > a little on the high risk side. > > Brian > > On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 05:13, Joe Barron wrote: > > Thank,s .Shane you understand what I,m wanting to do it,s me that is > > scared of this thing .I built a AMD 1900 for a friend the other day he > > had acouple of drives neither very big so I used one for the master and > > put XP on it (what he wanted not my ideal) the slave has something on it > > 98 I think but this weekend I wanted to wipe it out (it,s only 2.5 gig) > > and put 8.1 on it .But I,ve only setup lilo on 98 and on one hardrive > > never set-up were when I boot I want to pick another drive. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "shane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 11:30 AM > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Master & slave drives > > > > > maybe i don't understand, but, i just installed 8.2 release canidate 1 > > > on > > > > a > > > > > slave drive with win2000 on the master and i use lilo to boot. IIRC > > > only part of lilo goes onto the MBR of the first disk, the rest is in > > > your boot folder in linux (is that right guys?) and lilo handles > > > booting for both systems. as i said though, i have not done XP. > > > > > > you could install lilo to the second drive i guess, but it wouldn't do > > > anything. you could also not istall lilo and simply use a boot disk. > > > i would certainly be sure to have a working boot disk for XP before i > > > > started > > > > > though. > > > > > > also, once installed, if you wish to remove lilo you can boot to linux > > > and as root run "lilo -u" which if i recall is for -uninstall. :-) > > > > > > On Saturday 16 March 2002 08:30, Joe Barron opened a hailing frequency > > > and > > > > > > transmitted: > > > > Sorry ! Shane you told me what I wanted to know ,except were well > > > > lilo install master harddrive are slave .The system is for someone > > > > else but what he would like to do is have XP on the master and 8.1 on > > > > the 2nd H/D which I have slaved and he would like to have the 8.1 on > > > > that drive.Well this work trouble free? anything I need to watch > > > > loadind MD on the 2nd drive? ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > > -- > > > "'Tis some script kidd3z," I muttered, "tapping at my server port- > > > Only this, and nothing more." - Edgar "root" Poe. > > > > > > shane > > > http://shentzu.home.mindspring.com/ > > > Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 > > > Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html > > > Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >--- ---- > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > ---- > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- J
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