Re: [newbie] dual booting with win2k and linux

2000-09-16 Thread Mwinold
In a message dated 16-Sep-00 09:29:12 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry to butt in...I wonder what kernel 4.0.xx.rpm will be like? I think by then we will have moved to Linux 100% and be able to safely import our documents from Mac and/or Windows without a hitch. Many

Re: [newbie] dual booting with win2k and linux

2000-09-16 Thread Romanator
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 16-Sep-00 09:29:12 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry to butt in...I wonder what kernel 4.0.xx.rpm will be like? I think by then we will have moved to Linux 100% and be able to safely import our documents from Mac and/or

Re: [newbie] dual booting with win2k and linux

2000-09-15 Thread Greg Stewart
Can linux see an NTFS filesystem and the for NT of Linux? Regards, John If your kernel is compiled with NTFS read support, then 'yes'. If you go to recommpile your kernel you will see read and write options for NTFS. Slect the 'Read' option, but DO NOT (sorry for yelling) select the 'Write'

Re: [newbie] dual booting with win2k and linux

2000-09-15 Thread Larry Marshall
Not to be defending windows but it was most likly the way your anti-virus was configured that keep changing your boot record back to its orig. state. Good point Charles...Mr. Norton does has a way with things himself. I gave up running virus software all the time and went to scanning for

Re: [newbie] dual booting with win2k and linux

2000-09-15 Thread peter bunce
IBM boot manager will keep M$98 in its place, boot magic seems only to work with ms osesses it is ms, a few months ago an ms enthusiast completely messed up my system (removed my partitions) then to make amends re installed os2, 98 and linux using b magic two days later os2 would not boot, I had

Re: [newbie] dual booting with win2k and linux

2000-09-14 Thread Mwinold
dont use win2000! it hates anything that it detects as a non windows partition,

Re: [newbie] dual booting with win2k and linux

2000-09-14 Thread Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Kenji Wakabayashi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 7:19 PM Subject: [newbie] dual booting with win2k and linux Hi everyone, my problem is this: at the moment I am running win98 and I would like

Re: [newbie] dual booting with win2k and linux

2000-09-14 Thread Larry Marshall
dont use win2000! it hates anything that it detects as a non windows partition, I had a bizarre thought today. What would happen if Mickeysoft decided that a nice feature of their operating system would be to rewrite the boot record every time you booted Windows. This could be referred to

Re: [newbie] dual booting with win2k and linux

2000-09-14 Thread Greg Stewart
I had a bizarre thought today. What would happen if Mickeysoft decided that a nice feature of their operating system would be to rewrite the boot record every time you booted Windows. This could be referred to as part of the "maintenance" cycle. In a few words: I thought they already did

Re: [newbie] dual booting with win2k and linux

2000-09-14 Thread Larry Marshall
In a few words: I thought they already did that! :-) Not at my house...yet. I had a windows 98 installation that consistently re-wrote the disk-signature of my dual boot system's 2nd hard drive, and kept rendering that damned drive's partitions hidden... so , I couldn't boot from it

Re: [newbie] dual booting with win2k and linux

2000-09-14 Thread Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Greg Stewart" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 11:43 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] dual booting with win2k and linux I had a bizarre thought today. What would happen if Mickeysoft decided that a ni

Re: [newbie] dual booting with win2k and linux

2000-09-14 Thread Greg Stewart
Don't know about the Norton thing... I switched from Win 98 to NT4.0, and haven't had the problem. It seemd as though Win98 wanted complete control over the entire computer, whereas Windows NT, having been born a bit earlier, and the product of a slghtly less greed-infested OS, did not quite