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Re: Win Convenience Parition



I have put RedHat 6.0 with NT and it worked just fine. 
But that was a year ago with old LILO. Why would NT
have problems ?

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Oleg Goldshmidt <ogoldsh@netvision.net.il>
To: Eli Marmor <marmor@elmar.co.il>
Cc: linux ILUG <linux-il@linux.org.il>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 8:57 PM
Subject: Re: Win Convenience Parition


> Eli Marmor <marmor@elmar.co.il> writes:
> 
> > The big question is: WHAT Win exactly?  Win 9x (the latest: ME), or
> > NT (the latest: 2000). From the first look, 2000 looks better. But I
> > am not sure. Do both live peacefully with a Linux partition?  And
> > with lilo (or the similar boot software from Mandrake)?
> 
> A few days ago I installed RH7.0 on a computer with NT4.0
> preinstalled. The RH installer warned me about the following:
> 
> 1) LILO can live in the MBR if the other OS is Win9x.
> 2) If the other OS is NT, then LILO should be put in the 
>    beginning of the root partition, and one needs a boot
>    floppy.
> 
> I could not experiment with that machine, so I simply followed the
> instructions (i.e. chose #2 above), and I must admit I have not done
> any further research. Can anyone confirm or refute #2, and possibly
> explain why?
> 
> Anyway, if #2 is right (i.e. with NT LILO can't live in the MBR and
> one needs a boot floppy), then it is relevant for Eli's question.
> 
> -- 
> Oleg Goldshmidt <ogoldsh@NOSPAM.netvision.net.il> 
> "... We work by wit, and not by witchcraft;
>  And wit depends on dilatory time." [Shakespeare]
> 
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