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Re: Q about Mandrake



On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 07:57:38AM +0200, Boltyansky Boris wrote:
> 
> Hi there!
> 
> Has anyone ever tried to install Mandrake 7.0 on Windows partition? Can
> you tell me if it good or bad?

You mean a UMSDOS partitition (which is an emulation of
a Linux partition on a MSDOS FAT) ?

If Mandrake can do it (I'm not sure), then the obvious
problems would be:
1) Slower performance in some cases, as opposed to
native ext2fs partition.
2) Inability to fix disk errors via fsck since it's
really a FAT partition, not ext2fs. You'll either have
to live with that or resort to ScanDisk.

Read http://linux.org.il/LDP/HOWTO/UMSDOS-HOWTO.html for more help.

-- 
Best regards,
Ilya Konstantinov a.k.a Toastie
[http://toast.demon.co.il]

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