RE: Total loss with 2.4.0 (release) [off topic now...]

[Mike A. Harris]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Torrey Hoffman wrote:

>>I know if you have a 8G drive or larger, and install NT4 on it it
>>will fry everything entirely unless you stand on your head and
>>read about 50 MS kb articles.  Thankfully, I will _never_ have to
>>encounter this sort of thing again though.  ;o)
>
>If you have to share a machine with a Microsoft OS, the best thing is to
>install the Microsoft OS first.  That way it can set up the partition tables
>however it likes.  Just leave enough hard drive space free.
>
>Then install Linux.  This has several advantages - you can more easily set
>up Grub or Lilo to dual boot, and Linux can deal with whatever Microsoft's
>partition table flavor of the year is.  The Microsoft OS is less likely to
>become confused and violently lash out using that approach :-)

I absolutely and totally agree.  I strongly recommend this to
anyone at all.  If someone MUST share between NT and Linux,
install NT on partition 1 first, and make sure to grab ATAPI.SYS
update from MS first if you value any data on the drive and it
is >8Gb.  ;o)

>Another note: If dual-booting Windows 2000, upgrade to service pack 1 before
>installing Linux.  I was able to blue-screen W2K before SP1 by starting
>their disk management tool on a disk with dozens of Linux partitions.  And I
>agree - I am thankful that I will never have to deal with this again either.

All my new machines are getting straight Linux installs, no dual
boot anything except perhaps multiple boots of different versions
of Red Hat.  Only one machine shall have Windows on it, and only
until the remaining uses of it are available in Linux.  I
suspect it wont be too long.  ;o)

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