Installfest RE: [wellylug] March Meeting Notes

[Damon Lynch]

On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 16:03, Eugene Van Wyk wrote:
> I have a 4GB drive just for Linux.  How about disconnecting the NT drive,
> doing my bits on the "Linux" drive and using BIOS settings to choose the
> hard drive to boot from.  I've done this before with a DOS/NT system with
> good results
> 

Linux has excellent choices for bootloader systems that will give you
full control over which OS you want to the machine to boot up via a
menu.  Mandrake, for instance, at install time will automatically detect
NT and add it to the boot menu, as well as automatically set up mount
points under Linux so you can read files from NT (and write if
FAT32/16).  Mandrake can also get your fonts from NT.

Furthermore Mandrake 9.1 will resize NTFS partitions if you like.

But if you choose to use a distro that does not have these features, or
if you prefer to manually do these things, you can do that also.  It's
up to you.  That's good feature of Linux :-)

Best wishes,
Damon

-- 
Damon Lynch <damon at dev-zone.org>


------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->
Get 128 Bit SSL Encryption!
http://us.click.yahoo.com/xaxhjB/hdqFAA/xGHJAA/0XFolB/TM
---------------------------------------------------------------------~->

  .-.   Wellington
  /V\   Linux
 // \\  Users       
/(   )\ Group
 ^^-^^
        http://wlug.paradise.net.nz/

To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
wellylug-unsubscribe at egroups.com
  

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/