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.
>
> Until I get Windows free.
>
> Saludos

Windows would never be my OS of choice even if it were free (and it actually 
worked).

Brian


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