[juneau-lug] Re: October meeting

  • From: Pascal Vincent <dotcomcs@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 11:49:02 -0900

Sean Hegar wrote:

>hello Pascal
>the thing with winxp is that it has a hard time sharing the MBR. A couple of
>ways to do this.   make sure that when you set up your partitions be sure
>and give your xp partision a mount point   /Winxp.  When asked where to
>istall your boot loader you have a couple of options,  your mbr or you /boot
>partition.  you will of had to set one up. I ran into  a similar  problem
>only it wouldnt let me boot to redhat.  finally loaded xp on first then
>redhat 8.0, made sure and mounted my xp parttition, loaded grub onto the mbr
>and also looked to see that i had winxp as an option,  and it worked.
>the other thinng to think about is if you plan on sharing fles with *nix and
>a ntfs file system,  you might have to check your distro and make sure that
>it has support for it.  i finally istalled winxp pro on a fat32 file system
>that might have been the difference.
>good luck
> Sean
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:juneau-lug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Pascal Vincent
>Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 9:03 AM
>To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [juneau-lug] Re: October meeting
>
>
>
>Hello,
>
>I am quite new using Linux and I had Mandrake 8.1 installed on my
>desktop and on my Laptop as well. After an inevitable hard drive funeral
>on my Laptop I tried to reinstall Mandrake 8.1. I should mention that in
>the meantime, (when all was running well on the Laptop) I upgraded to XP
>Professional from the Home Edition. Anyway, when I reinstalled Mandrake
>it will not let me reboot on XP at all telling me that there is an NTFS
>issues on the MBR. Does anyone know what the issue is? Let say I have XP
>installed and running well, what could be the problem when I install my
>copy of Mandrake that won't let me dual boot like it use to when I had
>XP home edition on FAT files format. I just reformatted my hard drive
>and installed XP professional back on but I am afraid to try to install
>Linux again because it may not let me boot on XP...and then I have to
>start all over again. I have done this twice in the past 2 days and I am
>quite frustrated with it. Maybe I should just go to an other version of
>Mandrake or Suse or RedHat. Basically...I need help...
>I am out running for a coupe of hours and I will be back hoping for some
>wizards counseling...Later!
>
>- Pascal
>
>
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Thanks for the input..I am about to try it out...after my sunday nap. 
Thanks again for such a prompt support.
- Pascal



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