Aarune J. Oracle on Fri, 5 Nov 1999 17:34:35 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [Plug] That idiotic cylinder 1024 problem


I dont think the MBR cares about FS type

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On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Michelle Weber wrote:

:Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 11:11:18 -0500 (EST)
:From: Michelle Weber <umweber@mcs.drexel.edu>
:Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:Subject: Re: [Plug] That idiotic cylinder 1024 problem
:
:How do 98 and NT share the same boot partition? My current 98 partition is
:fat32... I don't know, but I thought NT couldn't handle fat32, and what if
:I made my NT partition NTFS?
:Or couldn't I also put the linux boot partition on the first part of the
:2nd drive, that works right?
:
:--
:Michelle Weber
:umweber@mcs.drexel.edu
:
:
:On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Mental wrote:
:
:> You shouldnt _need_ anything other than lilo and fdisk. If you setup a
:> small /boot partition near the front of your drive, you'll be fine.
:> NT and '98 share the same boot partition. This isn't a linux specific
:> problem. Its a limitation of crappy hardware. IDE is a broken
:> technology. Its cheap, but it has more than its share of drawbacks.
:> There's a couple solutions. Ditch IDE and go all scsi (I did, its much
:> faster anyways) or ditch x86 (which by default, sucks) and get a real
:> computer. The only thing keeping me in x86 land at home is
:> entertainment. There just arent that many popular games ported to the
:> alpha or sparc :)
:>
:> The utility previously mentioned that someone wrote to locate a section
:> of the hard drive is cool, but before I use it I'll need to check on
:> some stuff about ext2. If its anything like ufs then there's a small but
:> real chance that the kernel image could possibly be relocated at a
:> later time. Just due to how fragmentation is handled. Again, I'm not
:> certain, its something I may look into out of curiosity. Its not exactly
:> pressing. The only ide drives I have are moth balled  in my closet.
:>
:>
:>
:>
:> Mental
:> --
:>
:> "you make insanity respectable."
:> --Helcat on the subject of Mental.
:>
:> On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Michelle Weber wrote:
:>
:> > Hm, well I just got a 20.4 gig drive, it's still sitting in the box.
:> > Ideally I'd like to have linux, NT Server, and win98 all on the drive.
:> > Is this possible? Or do you think I'd need to use some commercial boot
:> > manager? Also, I'll have a 1.6 gig drive in the box as a slave drive if
:> > that would helpful in trying to set this up. And I already own Partition
:> > Magic 4.0.  Partition Magic 5.0 is out on their website, has anyone used
:> > it? Does it do anything more than the 4.0 version?
:> >
:> >
:> > --
:> > Michelle Weber
:> > umweber@mcs.drexel.edu
:> >
:> >
:> > On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Michael W. Ryan wrote:
:> >
:> > > On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Michelle Weber wrote:
:> > >
:> > > > Does this problem only exist in linux? Or does it affect other operating
:> > > > systems as well?
:> > >
:> > > It's a PC thing.  Blame IBM.
:> > >
:> > > Michael W. Ryan, MCP, MCT     | OTAKON 2000
:> > > mryan@netaxs.com              | Convention of Otaku Generation
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