On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 03:18:32PM +0100, Moloney, Mark wrote:
> One more thing: I learnt that if the first partition on your hdd is FAT32,
> NT installation will fail 'cos it needs a FAT partition to install its
> bootloader { grrrr... } to.
Actually, it fails because it thinks there is a FAT partition, and then can't
write to it. If you change the type completely (to 82 for example), it'll
ignore the partition, and install itself properly. It's just when
it picks up a FAT partition, but can't use it, that it gets confused.
And the sysinternals thing works. I used it quite a bit. They have a lot
of very interesting software on that site :)
The read-NTFS ability of Linux works okay, but it does have some
drawbacks (mainly that you have to work out the mount command's
options so that you can change the user it mounts as (by default, only
root can read it), and the case thing can be weird. Same as FAT
though really)...
The write-ability still has *experimental* written all over it...
L.
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