[ILUG] Dual Boot / Partitions question

[Griffin, Gearoid]

Not advertising for sysinternals or anything, and a bit OT but sysinternals
also provide an NTFS driver for win98 which works :) *shudder* once again
the thought about not installing the NT on a FAT32 partition (impossible
BTW) or 98 on NTFS part goes :)
Gearoid

-----Original Message-----
From: Moloney, Mark [mailto:Mark.Moloney at emea.gateway.com]
Sent: 14 June 2000 15:19
To: 'ilug at linux.ie'
Subject: RE: [ILUG] Dual Boot / Partitions question


NT4 can (apparently) read FAT32 partitions if you use a file system driver
from http://www.sysinternals.com/fat32.htm - the read-only version is free
of charge, the read-write version costs money.

I only came across this today (coincidentally) - I stayed up *gasp* past
midnight last night installing 98 and NT4 on my machine (ludicrous 20GB
hdd). Tonight is the easier job of slapping Mandrake 7.0 in there (unless
someone wants to swap me a copy of Mandrake 7.1 for a blank CD on
Saturday?).

I haven't tried the FAT32 reader yet, but I'm told it works fine. I already
know that Linux can read FAT and FAT32 no worries, and NTFS with few
worries. I think Vincent already pointed out that NTFS support is flaky
under Linux.

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.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Burke, Gary : GIG IS&T [mailto:Gary.Burke at guinness.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 14 June, 2000 09:52
To: 'gerard.keating at fintrax.com'; list, Irish LUG
Subject: RE: [ILUG] Dual Boot / Partitions question


]> Create a separate partition under NT, format it as fat32 instead of
]> NTFS, and make sure you have support for it compiled into your Linux
]> kernel.
]> 
]> Problem solved : you'll see this area as a separate drive under NT and
]> can mount it easily into your Linux filesystem.
]> 
]
]hmmm,, i thought NT could not access a fat32 partition... i know
]Windoze2000 can, but NT4 ???

You're right.  NT4 is unable to see FAT32 partitions.  It can see FAT16
alright.

Linux is able to read NTFS partitions though.


Gary
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