[ltp] Windows partition

[D. Sen]

Bill,

You mean 3 FAT type partitions....right? You cant actually put anything on
the 4th partition if you have extended partions....I think....


On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Bill Mair wrote:

> "Douglas E. Mitton" wrote:
>       When I first started installing Linux many-moons-ago,
>       DOS/Windows had to
>       be on the first primary partition of the primary-master
>       drive.  I just
>       always do it that way now.
> 
>       Once I did a single experiment putting Windows95 on the
>       second primary
>       master partition and it worked, I had Win 3.11 on the first
>       partition and
>       wanted to triple boot Win3.11, Win95 and Linux.
> 
>       I don't have any links on the rules for this, I can only how
>       I tend to do
>       it each time I install a dual-boot plus system.
> 
> AFAIK the rules are something like DOS (+Windows 9x/ME) must be on a
> primary parition.
> So that means you can have 4 DOS typ installations (Win9x,MSDOS
> 6.0,DR-DOS and PC-DOS). EEEK !
> Linux, BSD, OS/2, WinNT/2000 and a whole load of others can also be
> booted from an extended partition,
> doing this requires some kind of boot manager though (lilo,grub,etc.)
> 
> So if you have enough disk space you can ask your self "which OS do I
> want go today" (or something like that).
> 
> Bill.
> Damm computers...... [IMAGE]
> 


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