On Dec 9, 1997, at 15:34, Matthew R. Briggs wrote: > No, I don't think that will do it. He's talking about ntldr and boot.ini, > which NT places in the root directory of the boot drive...in his case a > 300MB FAT partition. If he reformats for ext2, the NT boot loader will > not exist anymore, and even his NT Emergency Boot Disk will not be able to > save him. > > Matthew, unfortunately there isn't much you can do in this situation if > you want to keep NT. If you're willing to reinstall NT, make NT live on > the boot partition and format the whole thing NTFS. ntldr and boot.ini > will go into the NTFS partition, and you can use "bootsect" to boot Linux > from the NT boot prompt...they can co-exist quite happily at that point. > But at the moment, you won't be able to use that FAT partition for Linux > unless you go with umsdos, which is a whole different can of worms.
If those two files don't have to be at a fixed location (that is, they can be copied around the FAT partition), you could also try this: 1. Delete all unnecessary files from the FAT partition, and defrag the partition. 2. Use FIPS to shrink the FAT partition to its minimal size, and create a new partition with the remaining space. 3. Format the new partition as ext2 and install Debian on it. I like Matt's solution better, though. > Matt -- Gonzalo Diethelm # Windows 95: n. 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for [EMAIL PROTECTED] # a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally =Debian Linux= # coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit www.debian.org # company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .