On Tuesday 11 March 2003 08:38 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: > On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 09:30, et wrote: > > this is correct, however I believe Civileme is refering to the boot-up > > record, not the ability to see and read files. > > I have WINme, Mandrake 9.0 and WIN2K installed all over my drives here is > > what # df says; > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > dev/hda7 7439692 4005108 3056660 57% / > > /dev/hdc5 5067904 2916396 2151508 58% /home > > /dev/hda4 4433936 2420300 2013636 55% /mnt/nt > > /dev/scd1 664392 664392 0 100% /mnt/scd1 > > /dev/hda1 28918880 19773728 9145152 69% /mnt/win_c > > /dev/hdc6 4858156 2261060 2597096 47% /mnt/win_c2 > > /dev/hda6 9010880 1393096 7617784 16% /mnt/win_d > > /dev/hda8 2891540 305228 2586312 11% /var > > so you can see that on my hdc while hdc5 is /home hdc6 s a fat win > > partiton that both OSs have no problem seeing and using. > > something I just noticed is that while on the graphic for diskdrake it > > looks like (all on one line) -[hda1/winME]-[hda5/linux swap]-[hda7/linux > > /] - [hda6/fat winD] - [hda8 /var] - [4gigs empty] - [hda4 /winNT] - > > so maybe there is something I did that I am not aware of that keeps MS > > thinking the hda4 partion is the last partiton on this drive and > > hda/5,6,7,8 are in the middle of the drive. > > Hopefully some one can explain who did that for me? was it diskdrake when > > I made the space available for win2k? > > Thank you for clarifying the whole thing. > > Anyway, to stay in the safe side, I will keep placing Windows partition > first and then Linux. For sure at least the bootable win partitons. as far as "fat32" partitions, put them anywhere.
> Until I get Windows free. > > Saludos
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