sorta funny page...

questionasker · 03-03-2004, 11:42 AM

go here.
but who would want to do that anyway?

DrOzz · 03-03-2004, 11:43 AM

done and done ....
you'll find that thread on here from previous postings

witeshark · 03-03-2004, 09:47 PM

Yeah funny - and who would want to!

questionasker · 03-03-2004, 10:03 PM

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Originally posted by DrOzz
...find that thread on here from previous postings

its not like i could search it. nobody would use the tilte i thought of...

DrOzz · 03-05-2004, 11:03 AM

the search function doesn't only search titles

thegeekster · 03-05-2004, 11:25 AM

From the link:

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Windows and Linux can coexist on the same computer. For additional information, refer to your Linux documentation.

That like saying if you want to have 'em both, we're not going to tell you how, you're on your own.

Nukem · 03-05-2004, 07:47 PM

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Originally posted by thegeekster
From the link:

That like saying if you want to have 'em both, we're not going to tell you how, you're on your own.

That's exactly what it means... I wonder how many people call microsoft product support asking how to install linux on their windows computer and keep them both...

thegeekster · 03-05-2004, 09:06 PM

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Originally posted by Nukem
... I wonder how many people call microsoft product support asking how to install linux on their windows computer and keep them both...

LOL......Sounds like fun, asking something along the lines of "What's the best way to do it for best compatibility between the two".........

TITiAN · 03-25-2008, 05:53 AM

"[...]refer to your Linux documentation", do they mean your distro's instructions? Hmmmm, no, it sounds to complicated!

brianL · 03-25-2008, 07:50 AM

Another thread has risen from the grave! 4 years old.

schneidz · 03-26-2008, 10:39 AM

i like this:

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Also, Linux recognizes more than forty different partition types, such as: 
• FAT 12 (Type 01) 
• FAT 16 > 32 M Primary (Type 06) 
• FAT 16 Extended (Type 05) 
• FAT 32 w/o LBA Primary (Type 0b) 
• FAT 32 w/LBA Primary (Type 0c) 
• FAT 16 w/LBA (Type 0e) 
• FAT 16 w/LBA Extended (Type 0f)

meaning linux is multilingual and windows can barely speak english. i'm surprised they havent deleted that section off.

this paragraph is just stupid:

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If you are installing Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000, the Linux
 partitions can be removed and new partitions created and formatted
 with the appropriate file system type during the installation 
process. Windows allows you to create more than one primary 
partition. The largest partition that Windows NT 4.0 allows you to 
create during installation is 4 GB because of the limitations of the 
FAT16 file system during installation. Also, the 4-GB partitions use 
64-KB cluster sizes. MS-DOS 6.x and Windows 95 or Windows 98 do not recognize 64-KB cluster file systems, so this file system is usually 
converted to NTFS during installation. Windows 2000, unlike Windows 
NT 4.0, recognizes the FAT32 file system. During the installation of Windows 2000, you can create a very large FAT32 drive. The FAT32 
drive can be converted to NTFS after the installation has completed 
if appropriate.

basically due to incompadabilities between different versions of windows means that data cannot be read/written from fat32 <-> ntfs.
1 solution i know of is to install linux and read/ write to more than forty different partition types...