[ILUG] cfdisk/lilo and WinXP/NTFS compatible?

[John P. Looney]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:30:13PM +0000, Ciaran O'Riordan mentioned:
> Hi all,
>   I was doing a linux install on a box that has WinXP,
> when it came to partitioning cfdisk* claimed the following:
> 
> disk    type           size(Mb)
> hda1   Dell Utility      32.91
> hda2   NTFS           19979.21
>        Free Space         8.23
> 
> *cfdisk is the standard tool used by Debian GNU/Linux "testing"
> 
> ok, so I'm guessing cfdisk meant to say Kb but it takes
> away from my confidence in lilo handling this job
> correctly :(

 Why ? Looks like there is a dell rescue partition of 32MB, a 20GB NTFS
partition (XP is NT based). So what's the problem ?

Kate

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