FW: [newbie] dual boot M8.2 and XP

2002-08-04 Thread frankie
Smith Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 1:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] dual boot M8.2 and XP Scott wrote: I've been looking all over for info about dual booting M 8.2 and windows XP. The different stuff I've found doesn't seem very consistent. Can anyone help me out or point me

Re: [newbie] dual boot M8.2 and XP

2002-07-31 Thread civileme
Felix Underhill wrote: I'm still confused on the same point: Some people talk about copying the boot record (the first 512 bytes from the linux partition) and copying it to the windows partition. Other people seem to be saying that linux will sort out the booting and never mention

RE: [newbie] dual boot M8.2 and XP suggestion

2002-07-31 Thread frankie
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anand Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 1:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] dual boot M8.2 and XP suggestion Hi, I may be wrong about this... but I beleive that it depends on whether the XP is on NTFS or not. My friend installed Linux

Re: [newbie] dual boot M8.2 and XP suggestion

2002-07-31 Thread Anand
Hi, I may be wrong about this... but I beleive that it depends on whether the XP is on NTFS or not. My friend installed Linux with XP on fat32 without any special precautions (like not installing lilo on MBR) and he didn't have any problems. I did the same thing with XP on NTFS and ended up

Re: [newbie] dual boot M8.2 and XP suggestion

2002-07-31 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 31 July 2002 13:06, Anand wrote: I may be wrong about this... but I beleive that it depends on whether the XP is on NTFS or not. My friend installed Linux with XP on fat32 without any special precautions (like not installing lilo on MBR) and he didn't have any problems. I did

Re: [newbie] dual boot M8.2 and XP

2002-07-30 Thread Scott
On Tuesday 30 July 2002 09:06 am, you wrote: On Tuesday 30 July 2002 02:00 am, Kenneth wrote: I recommend not dual booting XP and Mandrake.. You have to remember Microsoft is not too friendly.. I had a hard enough time with Windows ME and Mandrake 8.2 In the case of Mandrake 8.1, I am

Re: [newbie] dual boot M8.2 and XP

2002-07-30 Thread Felix Underhill
I'm still confused on the same point: Some people talk about copying the boot record (the first 512 bytes from the linux partition) and copying it to the windows partition. Other people seem to be saying that linux will sort out the booting and never mention copying the boot record or

[newbie] dual boot M8.2 and XP

2002-07-29 Thread Scott
I've been looking all over for info about dual booting M 8.2 and windows XP. The different stuff I've found doesn't seem very consistent. Can anyone help me out or point me to a good tutorial? Thanks, SW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] dual boot M8.2 and XP

2002-07-29 Thread K. Spress Jr
- Original Message - From: Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 12:57 AM Subject: [newbie] dual boot M8.2 and XP I've been looking all over for info about dual booting M 8.2 and windows XP. The different stuff I've found doesn't seem very consistent