Re: [newbie] Doing Lynx4win in Windows XP

2001-10-23 Thread ddcharles 

Hi,

When you installed XP, you installed it on NTFS, which can NOT be used.
sorry.

David Charles

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Joshua Kurtz wrote:

> I'm trying to install Mandrake on the same partion as Windows
> XP. According to the help files you can do it with Windows
> 95/98/ME. At the install prompt when I type Lynx4win(spelling)
> it runs fine until it trys to access the install files on my
> hard drive then I get this error "I can not access this drive,
> it is not Fat 32 or Fat16 Try again? [y][n]" Any ideas how
> install it on the same partion as windows Xp without formatting
> my hard drive and installing windows 98?
>
> Any help would be great.
>
> Thanks
>
> 
> Get your own "800" number
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RE: [newbie] Doing Lynx4win in Windows XP

2001-10-23 Thread Jose M. Sanchez 

You can't.

Linux cannot write to the newer XP NTFS file system and hence will not
run.

The Lynx4win doesn't even have NTFS file system modules for older
version of NT.

BTW: Performance is abysmal under Lynx4win. You are better off
installing it on another drive.

-JMS


|-Original Message-
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|Subject: [newbie] Doing Lynx4win in Windows XP
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|I'm trying to install Mandrake on the same partion as Windows 
|XP. According to the help files you can do it with Windows 
|95/98/ME. At the install prompt when I type Lynx4win(spelling) 
|it runs fine until it trys to access the install files on my 
|hard drive then I get this error "I can not access this drive, 
|it is not Fat 32 or Fat16 Try again? [y][n]" Any ideas how 
|install it on the same partion as windows Xp without formatting 
|my hard drive and installing windows 98?
|
|Any help would be great. 
|
|Thanks
|
|
|Get your own "800" number
|Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag
|
|




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