[plug] NT and Linux coexisting

[Chris Maidorn]

Off the subject a bit, I have a linux and an NT box networked at home, I
haven't come close to fully utilising either. I have no way of backing up
information (I am too cheap to buy a zip drive) apart from using the hard
drive of the other machine (the way I look at it you would have to be pretty
unlucky to have both machines go down at once). Whilst testing my ideas I
have come across one problem, windows zip files that I save on to linux hdd
seem to get corrupted. They are unable to be read while on linux hdd or when
copied back to NTFS. Other types of files copied to ext2 do not seem to
suffer from this problem regardless of whether they are accessed from ext2
or ntfs, or  when they are copied back to the original media. ( I use Samba
and have no probs copying files from one pc to the other etc.)

Another question is for people who use eisa (not great service, but I will
not complain about 5 free hours a month and 1$ per hour from then onwards)
as their ISP.  Since (recently) installing linux I have been unable to use
eisa to connect to the internet using Linux. I have had no probs using iinet
and onenet, and I have had no probs using eisa with NT.  (P.S. I have set up
iinet and onenet using kppp). Any help would be appreciated.


>On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Christian wrote:
>
>> a) what type should I make the partition I'm going to put it on?
>
>NTFS, unless you really want to write to it from Linux, then you could use
>vfat, with loss of security etc.  Remember to always create a partition
>with the OS that will use it. ie dont use linux to create the NT
>partition.
>
>> b) will NT damage other partitions on the same disk? (none of them are
>> "root" partitions except for an OpenBSD partition which I can easily
>> reinstall.)
>
>Shouldnt do, but installing any OS is a risk. Backup first.
>
>> c) will NT touch other partitions on other disks? (except for the MBR
>> which I can relilo) If there's any risk of it damaging my main Linux
>> partition then I might wait until after uni is finished...
>
>NT is much more polite than win95. It shouldnt even touch the MBR.
>(Of course i'm talking NT4 - all bets off on beta software.)
>
>> d) how do you tell the NT install which partition to put itself on?
>
>It asks explicitly. And will let you create & delete partitons during
>install. Again, NT is much safer in my experience than the various
>incarnations of win95. I dont know about '98.
>
>> I'm also planning to use LILO to boot NT - has anyone had any problems
>> with this?  Someone said to me that they thought you couldn't boot NT
>> using LILO if you were using NTFS - anyone know anything about this?
>
>No problem. You can put LILO on the MBR, and get it to call the NT loader,
>or get the NT loader to call LILO. Check the HOWTOs, or call me.
>
>
>Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
>                          --==--
>The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
>