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

[Stephane Dudzinski]

Even though XP is NT-Based, it's main filesystem is FAT32. Most of the
resellers will provide machines installed with a FAT32 partition so the
user can decide to convert or not.

Steph

On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 15:33, John P. Looney wrote:
> 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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