A little offtopic, sorry, but I'm quite desperate -- I need my machine
to play Battle Realms ASAP :D

Is it possible to boot Windows 2000 from an extended partition?  I
already have a working Linux system, and am trying to install Win2k.  I
have the ff. partitions (all made through the linux fdisk):

/dev/hda1       fat32   *
/dev/hda2       ext2    *
/dev/hda3       linux swap
/dev/hda4       extended
/dev/hda5       linux
/dev/hda6       ntfs    *
/dev/hda7       linux
/dev/hda8       linux

(* - active partitions)

The Win2k CD put the boot files (ntldr, boot.ini, etc.) on hda1, while
the main contents (/WINNT dir) are in hda6.  When it boots at hda1, it
says "disk error / press R to restart", and when I try to boot at hda6,
it just hangs with weird characters that look like "Ca".

I've been searching the net since yesterday, and while people say Win2k
can boot from the extended partition, I can't find any site HOW to do
it.  If anyone can point me to the proper URL, I'd be very thankful.

Well, TIA!

-- 
Joon Guillen


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So computers are tools of the Devil? thought Newt.  He had no problem
believing it.  Computers had to be the tools of _somebody_, and he knew
for certain that it definitely wasn't him.

from "Good Omens", Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

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