From: "JJG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > Right now I have the 3 full height scsi drives mounted in the tower and I am > waiting on my $3.95 (or something ridiculous like that) 6 drop SCSI cable > from computergate (TNX Anthony) to get Linux going. I did something crazy > while I am waiting! I installed NT4. (oooou... and a hush falls over the > crowd :)
Right through the heart! Ow! > I figured since I had the software and the full overpriced M$ > certification books/ training courses, I might as well. I'm impressed that you managed to do this without a drive cable. :) Seriously, if you could install NT, why not install Linux? Not like the hardware requirements are harder. *sniff* > Anyway, I now have the crazy idea that I want to leave NT installed and have > the machine choose it's OS on boot. (Like I won't already have enough to > learn w/ linux). Dammit Neo, ONE pill. Pick ONE pill! If the machine had it's way, it would prefer Linux. :) I just want to know which you'll have boot by default. I know it's possible to dual-boot Linux & NT. I installed RedHat on my laptop as a test before attempting Debian (nice to see the X config working once), and it detected my Windows 2K install and configured LILO to allow me to select either one. > I also want to have my 2 segate file storage drives accessible/readable by > either OS. OK, that's going to be trickier. Using NT, you'll typically want to use NTFS. However, Linux support for read-write access on NTFS is currently experimental (and not too stable from what I recall). Read-only support works well. You could do something perverse like format them using FAT (does NT support FAT32? I don't recall) that would allow read-write access from both. > If you remember, I have one 2gig maxtor SCSI and two 9 gig > Segate SCSIs for storage. I figure if the 2 segate's are accessible by > either OS, If I trash one OS I can still get to my files via the other. Is > this possible? Yes, it's definitely possible IF you select a filesystem both can understand. FAT may fit the bill, but it has it's annoyances on either OS. *gag* So much for RAID, eh? :) > Does it take some special distro or package? Will everyone > cast me away for some kind of sacrilege ;-)? No, but we reserve the right to snicker when it begins to crawl when running NT. :) > Let me know if I am exceeding my bandwidth quota :) Not with productive stuff, heck no. - Bob To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
