Both the mouse and keyboard are USB, but it is a desktop not a laptop. So
are you saying that I won't be able to use Mandrake 7.2? I now need to get
a copy of 8.0?
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 06:38:28 +0000, civileme wrote:
On Tuesday 10 July 2001 00:35, 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
OK now the question makes more sense. Linux uses its own filesystem,
called
ext2, and effectively hides from Windows. All it needs is some room on
the
disk.
7.2 and 8.0 will make their own partitions by shrinking a FAT32 partition
if
it can be shrunken, and install invisibly to windows, so you need the
FAT32
OR you need to install on just part of the disk and leave the rest
unpartitioned, then linux will create its own partitions on the rest of
the
disk. That is, you need to do that if you wish to use linux. Another
alternative is to add a disk, and leave it unformatted.
Do you have USB mouse and keyboard? or PS/2 keyboard and USB mouse?
Is this a laptop? If your answer is yes for any of these, then 8.0 is
more
likely to work, but even then you may need to make a floppy from one of
the
alternate install images on the 8.0 CD. Many hardware standards are
changing, and we try to keep images around to deal with the combinations
of
old and new that pop up. Naturally, in windows, with the drivers written
by
the hardware manufacturers, this is not a problem, but in linux, with the
drivers generally written by reverse engineering, it is. That situation
is
getting better as more manufacturers either part with information or write
linux drivers and make them open-source.
And yes lnx4win will not work on win2k.
Civileme
>
> 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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