Re: windows nt and linux

1997-12-10 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
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 anymor

Re: windows nt and linux

1997-12-09 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 9 Dec 1997, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > > "Mandark!" == Mandark! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mandark!> and I want to install linux over ms-dos. BUT on the dos > Mandark!> partition there is a windows nt file which is VITAL and > Mandark!> contai

Re: windows nt and linux

1997-12-09 Thread Sten Anderson
"Matthew R. Briggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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

Re: windows nt and linux

1997-12-09 Thread Matthew R. Briggs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- 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

Re: windows nt and linux

1997-12-09 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Mandark!" == Mandark! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mandark!> and I want to install linux over ms-dos. BUT on the dos Mandark!> partition there is a windows nt file which is VITAL and Mandark!> contains the nt boot record (ms-dos mbr occupies the mbr Mandark!> space) and if l

windows nt and linux

1997-12-09 Thread Mandark!
hi. i have windows nt and msdos on my hard drive partitioned as such: MS-DOS | Windows NT 500 MB| 3.1 GB and I want to install linux over ms-dos. BUT on the dos partition there is a windows nt file which is VITAL and contains the nt boot record (ms-dos mbr occupies the mbr space) and if l