Re: windows nt and linux
On Dec 9, 1997, at 15:34, Matthew R. Briggs wrote:
> No, I don't think that will do it. He's talking about ntldr and boot.ini,
> which NT places in the root directory of the boot drive...in his case a
> 300MB FAT partition. If he reformats for ext2, the NT boot loader will
> not exist anymore, and even his NT Emergency Boot Disk will not be able to
> save him.
>
> Matthew, unfortunately there isn't much you can do in this situation if
> you want to keep NT. If you're willing to reinstall NT, make NT live on
> the boot partition and format the whole thing NTFS. ntldr and boot.ini
> will go into the NTFS partition, and you can use "bootsect" to boot Linux
> from the NT boot prompt...they can co-exist quite happily at that point.
> But at the moment, you won't be able to use that FAT partition for Linux
> unless you go with umsdos, which is a whole different can of worms.
If those two files don't have to be at a fixed location (that is, they
can be copied around the FAT partition), you could also try this:
1. Delete all unnecessary files from the FAT partition, and defrag the
partition.
2. Use FIPS to shrink the FAT partition to its minimal size, and
create a new partition with the remaining space.
3. Format the new partition as ext2 and install Debian on it.
I like Matt's solution better, though.
> Matt
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