Vincent Voois wrote:
SnapafunFrank wrote:
Unless you have actually tried for yourself, please layoff saying things as if they were fact. As to windows, WinMe ain't so bad once you bash
For the fact that i couldn't run half the shit in WinME due to whatever MS invention was in there makes ME a pretty invaluable Win9X environment. (I still had a lot of DOS applications i wanted to run which ME didn't allow anymore and so were many companies having office tools based upon DOS that did not worked (properly) in ME)
ME supposed to be the stepping stone to NTFS system but it was lacking tools that were very usefull in Win9X and had things that crapped up various software packages. I couldn't even get Adobe Premiere to run in it, neither could i get bug-free hardware drivers for my pinnacle card for ME (as it did not support a load of other new hardware either which was released after Windows ME)
It's a fact that some people like WinME but it's also a fact that WinME was a marketfailure and not only for the reasons i just mentioned.
If it works:Congratulations and have fun, but if considering for a new install: VOID it.
For one thing it was good for was the silent hint that DOS software-support were about to become a thing of the past.
it's face in a bit AND it will run off another HDD without reconfiguring anything AND from a install from Mandrake to boot. Don't believe me: read the following and weep:
If you have only a non-FAT or non-NTFS platform on your primary harddrive, your second harddrive will always become C:\.
But if you have a Windows system on your primary partitions which shares the same FS as the one on your second harddrive...
Generally the msdos.sys holds a line which points to the systemdir. This has never been different, neither in current NT's boot.ini, it's required that the windows system knows where it's systemfolder is, Unless you have no other existing windows environments on your primary harddrive, you will have to configure that and that was my point.
OK. You are teaching me something here but I haven't quite nailed it yet.
Re partitions:]
/dev/hda1 * 1 125 1004031 83 Linux /dev/hda2 126 2937 22587390 85 Linux extended /dev/hda3 2938 4434 12024652+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 4435 4870 3502170 6 FAT16 /dev/hda5 126 250 1004031 83 Linux /dev/hda6 251 1496 10008463+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 1497 1559 506016 82 Linux swap /dev/hda8 1560 2805 10008463+ 83 Linux /dev/hda9 2806 2937 1060258+ 83 Linux
and:
/dev/hdb1 * 1 1827 14675346 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hdb2 1828 1829 16065 83 Linux /dev/hdb3 1830 2491 5317515 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hdb5 1830 1841 96358+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb6 1842 1853 96358+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb7 1854 2263 3293293+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb8 2264 2295 257008+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb9 2296 2491 1574338+ 83 Linux
Now I'm lost with the "non-FAT' statement. As you can see I have FAT on both HDDs so your reply suggested that I needed to configure things? I do recall that when attempting to update to Mandrake 10 that lilo thought that my FAT partitions were windows OS's but I didn't see this when I went ahead with a clean install. I have fought hard with this partition problem for some time and feel that I might be missing something real simple, so forgive me for persevering. Right now everything runs fine in this regard but the next time I go to update or try something different I can see me getting balder.
-- Regards
SnapafunFrank
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