Greg,
I was confused the first time I read your note, but now it sounds like
all you really want to do is install Mandrake 7.2 in a "dual boot"
configuration on a machine that already has Windows 2000 Server
installed. Is that correct?
If so, let us know -- I think (unless there is something tricky about
Windows 2000), that is fairly easy to do and sort of the standard Linux
installation. You shrink your existing windows partition, then create
new partitions for Linux. These new partitions can be ext2 or any other
valid Linux type partition. (I'm not trying to give you the step by
step here -- if what I described is what you're trying to accomplish,
the standard step by step is available -- write back if you need help --
somebody will be able to help you.)
Or, are you trying to run some Linux applications while you are running
windows? If so, let us know which ones -- some can be done (with Cygwin
for instance) and others I suspect cannot be done.
regards,
Randy Kramer
Greg Partin wrote:
>
> I'm running Windows 2000 Server on my machine now so I believe that I cannot
> use linx4win. Is this true? The only 2 options are to use NTFS and FAT when
> installing Windows 2000 Server. I'm having a really difficult time with the
> installation on top of this. Whenever I try the graphical installation the
> mouse does not work and whenever I try the text installation the keyboard
> does not work. I looked at the BIOS to see if there was anywhere to turn of
> Plug 'n Play but I don't seem to have an option (is it called something else
> that I may not know?). Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thank you,
>
> Greg
>
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 02:21:23 +0000, civileme wrote:
>
> On Monday 09 July 2001 19:27, Greg Partin wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Is it possible to install Mandrake 7.2 on a system with NTFS as its file
> > allocation method? If not, is it possible to switch to FAT without
> having
> > to reinstall everything? Thanks and much obliged.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> >
> >
> The NTFS filesystem, no. It is proprietary and secret and our best
> drivers
> just read and (experimenatlly write to it)
>
> It is possible to do a system with FAT, but a very bad idea. ext2 keeps
> fragmentation low by design, and doesn't use a defragmenter, and there are
>
> none currently available under linux for FAT32, and , as often as linux
> hits
> the disk with small (less than 1k) files, FAT32 would be overwhelmed and
> severely fragmented in just a day or two.
>
> Windows would directly see those partitions and complain that they were
> malformed or contained corrupt data and some wizard would likely offer to
> "fix" them. Or windows would flat refuse to boot on a dual boot system
> because all the corrupt filesystems would first have to be formatted.
>
> You can achieve a similar effect by using lnx4win.
>
> Civileme
>
>
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