You're right, it's clunky to run on a 486. What isn't? Turning left at
the intersection, though, doesn't win95 have issues with harddrives
larger than 3G? Wouldn't I be running into problems with either and
8.4 or a 15G drive with w95?
On 30 Jun 00, at 13:28, Craig McPherson wrote:
> First of all... running NT on that 486 will be like beating your head
> against a wall. A cement wall. But hey, it's your life.
>
> You have no need to use any FAT32 filesystems. NT can't handle FAT32,
> so there's no point in using it. You'll want to use NTFS for your NT
> partition(s), and ext2 for your Linux partition(s). Actually, I'm
> advising people to use ReiserFS instead of ext2 for as many partitions
> as possible, but at your stage of knowledge you probably don't want
> to mess with that yet. Ext2 is nothing special, but it'll get the
> job done for now.
>
> You'll want to upgrade your computer's BIOS. Assuming you have a
> flashable BIOS, visit the BIOS manufacturer's website and download
> a BIOS flasher utility. Otherwise... bleh.
>
> I personally always advise against seperate /boot partitions.
> Just remember this rule: keep any partitions you want to boot
> from under the 1024th cylinder. Do that, and you won't NEED
> a seperate boot partition.
>
> Good luck.
>
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 01:18:13PM -0600, TODD WITTER wrote:
> > Also... what about all the FAT32 stuff?? Will there be issues I
> > might encounter with this and NT and having lstorm on there too?
> > Thanks, again.
> >
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