[plug] NT and Linux coexisting

[John Summerfield]

> 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.


I installed NT4 about three weeks ago; I don't recall a VFAT option. NTFS 
is sensible, and Linux DOES have readwrite to HPFS.



> 
> > 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.

Its disk manager has odd ideas about the world, but in my experience it's 
only damaged itself.

>  
> > 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...


It didn't actually damage anything else, but it can make it difficult to 
boot your choice. However, it IS documented wrt OS/2, and so's the MS 
solution: run the disk manager to make the correct partition bootable. In 
your case, lilo's the way to go.

NT left my Linux alone. A couple of warnings:
1	If you have a network card with I/O address 0x340, remove it. Reinstall 
it once NT's installed.
2	I'm not at all sure installs to extended partitions; I've always put it 
in primaries.



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