Some installfest issues

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

IMHO, assuming dual boot:
If you want to share data between Linux, NT and Windows 9x, then a Windows 
FAT32 partition would be the better place because all 3 OSs can read and 
write. 
On 22 Apr 2002 at 12:48, Jim Kelly-Rand wrote:

> I am not a System Admin. or some one who had the time to find a way around
> the documented limitations, but I knew that if I put forth my experience
> that if someone had found a way they/you would respond. 
> 
> My next question would be to ask how  the person at the installfest wanted
> to share the common data between the 3 systems? As far as I know Linux
> cannot write to an NTFS partition, nor can W98. Vice versa Wxx cannot write
> to ext2-3, or am I mistaken? I could install NT and 98 to the most primitive
> versions of the fat FS and then Linux could write to that format. 
> 
> Jim Kelly-Rand
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> 
> 
> > On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Jim Kelly-Rand wrote:
> > 
> > > Ihave documentation at home of the process I went through 
> > to achieve an
> > > NT/Linux dual boot but I am not there now.
> 
> > From: Matthew J. Brodeur [mailto:mbrodeur at NextTime.com]
> > 
> >    I have read the same documentation, and it's all wrong.  I don't 
> > currently have a machine doing so, but it is quite possible to boot 
> > BIOS->LILO->NTLoader.  I have done this in the past to create 
> > Linux/W95/WNT and Linux/W98/W2K systems.
> >    IIRC, and I might be misremembering, I would first 
> > partition the drive 
> > using Linux fdisk.  Then I'd install Win9x in C: (first 
> > DOS-type Primary 
> > partition), WinNT in another DOS partition (usually formatted 
> > NTFS), and 
> > then Linux somewhere else.  WinNT (or 2k) would see that I 
> > already had 9x 
> > installed, add an entry to NTLoader for me, and install it in 
> > the root 
> > block of C:.  During the Linux install I'd create a LILO 
> > entry pointing to 
> > that partition (usually /dev/hda2, since /boot was hda1) and 
> > I'd just call 
> > it "Windows".
> >    This left me with one step to get to Linux (LILO->Linux), 
> > or two to 
> > either Windows (LILO->NTLoader->WinNT/9x).  I found this to 
> > be much easier 
> > than tricking NTLoader into booting LILO.
> > 
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