On Thu 20 Nov 03, 12:48 PM, David Margolis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Another solution is to install Win2K on a FAT partition instead of NTFS > (one of the choices in the Win2K install. lol! that's hardly a solution for me. i have no desire to reinstall the operating system! :)
i definitely would've picked FAT if i had the option. unfortunately, it didn't ask me what filesystem to use. my only choice was NTFS. it might be because this was the "professional" version of win2k? i dunno. but i really wanted it on a FAT partition. but everything is groovey right now anyway. lilo boots win2k like a charm. > This does a couple of things: > > 1. Allows you to install Lilo for dual-boot they way a lot of the help > docs explain it (they are assuming that you have a Win9X machine). With > not NTFS, there is also not NTLoader so Win2K becomes a little more > flexible about sharing the hard-drive. > > 2. Allows you to read/write to your Win2K partition without all the > undocumented, unsupported NTFS woes. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Linux > FAT file system support is pretty solid, and NTFS support is still > considered read-only and/or experimental. this is true. it's been that way for as long as i can remember. i wonder if anybody is really working on it. > In my experience, if your other > OS is on a FAT file system, you don't even have to do anything to mount it > (i.e. RedHat and Slackware, from my experience, both detect and mount the > drive at boot). No modules to load, or kernels to recompile or any of > that stuff... > > Dave M but you can also build ntfs.o into your kernel too, i suppose... pete -- "Nobody steals our chicks. And lives." -- Duke Nukem (played on Linux) GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
