Aarune J. Oracle on Fri, 5 Nov 1999 17:38:04 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [Plug] That idiotic cylinder 1024 problem


why not have them on different partitions?  You dont need to have NT and
win98 on the same partition.

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-Rune

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On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Michael W. Ryan wrote:

:Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:25:20 -0500 (EST)
:From: Michael W. Ryan <mryan@netaxs.com>
:Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:Subject: Re: [Plug] That idiotic cylinder 1024 problem
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:On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Michelle Weber wrote:
:
:> 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?
:
:You can only have Win9x cohabitate with WinNT if the partition is FAT16.
:WinNT cannot read FAT32 and Win9x cannot read NTFS.  I'm not 100% certain,
:but I think Win2k can read FAT32.
:
:> Or couldn't I also put the linux boot partition on the first part of the
:> 2nd drive, that works right?
:
:By all means.  That's how I have my system at home setup.
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