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From: "Peter 'Luna' Runestig" <peter@runestig.com>
To: "Linux Kernel mailing list" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Total loss with 2.4.0 (release)
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 00:12:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000d01c087ed$82ffb950$0201010a@runestig.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.32.0101261611300.791-100000@asdf.capslock.lan>

From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org>:
> >> Whwnever you install/upgrade any OS and especially M$ ones on a
> >> multiboot machine, you should always ensure ahead of time that
> >> they will play nicely together, agree on geometry translation
> >> schemes, partitioning schemes, etc, and that any option to take
> >> over the whole machine is turned off.  Windows NT defaults to
> >> "fry the whole disk", but I don't know about ME or W2K as they
> >> are IMHO just bloat + new pictures, etc..

In what situation would NT4 default to "fry the whole disk"? I've mixed
Linux/DOS/Win98/NT4/Win2000 several ways on various hardware (>8 GB disks),
with no problems at all actually. Maybe "one single person having a problem
does not mean in any way that this is the way it occurs for 100% of the
userbase" ?

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-26 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-15 21:50 Total loss with 2.4.0 (release) Trever Adams
2001-01-23  5:33 ` Mike A. Harris
2001-01-23  7:01   ` Alan Olsen
2001-01-23 10:03   ` Trever L. Adams
2001-01-23 10:32     ` Patrizio Bruno
2001-01-23 14:57       ` Trever L. Adams
2001-01-23 15:25         ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-01-23 11:27           ` Mark I Manning IV
2001-01-23 10:53             ` Ben Ford
2001-01-23 17:42         ` Mike A. Harris
2001-01-23 18:28     ` Mike A. Harris
2001-01-25 13:43       ` Kjartan Maraas
2001-01-26 21:40         ` Mike A. Harris
2001-01-26 23:12           ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig [this message]
2001-01-27  1:24             ` Mark van Walraven
2001-01-23 10:22   ` Heikki Lindholm
2001-01-23 12:43   ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2001-01-23 18:13     ` Total loss with 2.4.0 (release) (win98 not honoring partitioning) Jason Venner
2001-01-23 18:36       ` J Sloan
2001-01-23 20:17     ` Total loss with 2.4.0 (release) Mike A. Harris
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-15 13:40 Heikki Lindholm

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