Re: RedHat 5.1 and NT 4.0 WS

[Maurice Hilarius <maurice harddata com>]

With regards to your message at 05:04 PM 08-31-98 -0600, ferret@frii.com.
Where you stated:
>I need to eventually have both of these OSes on the same box. Is it
>possible to put each on its own hard drive? If so, could someone direct to
>some documentation that discusses the pros and cons of such an install.
>
It's pretty simple.
As you probably know, we normally make the first partition on the hard
drive a FAT16 (DOS) partition to hold milo and linload.exe.
If you make that partition bigger ( at least 500MB, NT is a pig) then you
can install NT there. Make another 2 or more partitions to hold Linux / and
swap, and more if you like to hold /usr and whatever else on separate
partitions. You create 2 different booter selections in the ARC or
AlphaBIOS menu, and that is about it.
Pros:	You can run Windows software.
	When NT blue-sceens you have something decent to run on your machine.

Cons: You use up a lot of diskspace to hold NT and those files.
	When you run out of disk space you have to do some work to clear off the NT
	partition and re-format it as e2fs..  ;^}


Cheers,

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