On Tuesday 27 May 2003 8:17 pm, Frank Bax wrote: > At 03:13 PM 5/27/03, Anne Wilson wrote: > >On Tuesday 27 May 2003 7:38 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > > > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > >On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:25:51AM +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: > > > >>ajx wrote: > > > >>>Graham Banks wrote: > > > >>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>>><snip> > > > >>>> > > > >>>>>Anybody got a boot setup allowing different combinations > > > >>>>> of disks/partitions to be accessible in windows & linux? > > > >>>>> I've got two hard disks, the second of which is online > > > >>>>> only for occasional backups. The first has 5 partitions: > > > >>>>> a windows one, a dos one and 3 linux ones (in that > > > >>>>> order). > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>>At present I use a boot manager for Windows, called xosl, > > > >>>>>which manages the dos/windows side of this perfectly. > > > >>>> > > > >>>><snip> > > > >>>> > > > >>>>I currently have 1 of my computers running win98SE, > > > >>>>win2000 (for program compatibility) and MDK9.1 > > > >>>>I use XOSL as a boot manager on this machine as I can > > > >>>>setup passwords for the different oses and make booting > > > >>>>the winblows partitions a little more secure. > > > >>>> > > > >>>>All I did was to install lilo on the MDK partition that > > > >>>>contains the /boot. I then pointed XOSL to this partition, > > > >>>>labelled it Mandrake (as the default os of course). I set > > > >>>>the bios to boot only fron hard drive and viola! - works > > > >>>>flawlessly (did so with MDK8.2 and MDK9.0 as well) I set > > > >>>>lilo to boot after 2 seconds and removed the options for > > > >>>> the windows boot options. > > > >> > > > >>But all you have done really is replace the windblows > > > >> bootloader with this XOSL loader,and I'm guessing, in the > > > >> MBR of whichever first partition is Windblows , and then > > > >> installed lilo as a linux loader in chain loader fashion. > > > >> Now, perhaps this XOSL loader is more secure than windblows > > > >> own, but if so I doubt by much, since password configuration > > > >> to both windblows has been a feature of W98 and W2K from the > > > >> start.You only have to choose to set it. So why bother with > > > >> all this XOSL stuff, just let lilo be installed in the MBR > > > >> of which ever windblows OS is first and chain load as > > > >> before. > > > > > > > >I think he wants different combinations of FAT partitions to > > > > be visible in DOS and Windows. lilo will let the Microsoft > > > > systems, when booting, make their own decisions as to what is > > > > visible, which is precisely what he does not want. Now there > > > > is a utility called letterassign that runs in Windows, (and > > > > probably in Dos too, but I'm not sure) that allows you to > > > > tell a Windows system what partitions it is to see, and which > > > > partitions are to correspond to which so-called "drive" > > > > letters. I've used it with Windows 98SE, and it seems to > > > > work. > > > > > > > >-- hendrik > > > > > > OK, but I have never had any problem with getting any windblows > > > OS to recognise any number of FAT 32 partition, whether before > > > or after linux partitions. So it must be in DOS itself, but > > > does anyone actually use DOS anymore ?, and in anycase your > > > sayng DOS cannot recognise FAT32 partitions ?, really ? > > > >Really. In fact, I don't think win95 can, either. Fat32 wasn't > >'invented' then. > > FAT32 Introduced in Win95 OSR actually. > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.micro >soft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q154/9/97.asp&NoWebContent=1 > > And yes people still use DOS. I have a couple of DOS systems being > used as dialup routers - more secure for this purpose than any of > the network enabled OS's. > > Frank
My mistake, then. I thought win95 was fat16.
Anne
The original Win95 was indeed fat16 only - and therefore 2G limit. I made a typo - Win95 OSR2 introduced fat32. There were four versions of Win95, three of which support fat32.
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