On 3 Jan 2001, at 5:56, jfweber wrote:
You are correct. Even the much ballyhooed Windows 2000 pro wont install on a partition or drive that isn't the C:\ if there is any OS except a M$ product. It just will not install. Not 100% certain about NT4 , but I'm inclined to think it will install some of itself onto the C:\ no matter where it goes.
NT 4 will install onto any drive, as long as the primary partition is M$. In fact, the best way, if there is one, to install it is to load M$- DOS on a 125MB C: drive and then put the rest in NTFS. One evening, after a coupla beers, I pulled out the Linux fdisk program, put a Windows 95 OSR 1 partition on the slave IDE drive, made it active, then installed DOS on it. Then I threw a minimal linux install on the master drive. After this, I went and tried to install Windoze 95 on the slave drive, and it hosed my linux install completely. I still don't know if it was me on Windoze, though, as I had a coupla more beers when I was doing the installs. ;) Cheers, Dennis "Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language." --Noel Godin