Re: [FNG question] Lilo/win98/2 hard disks. Boot Linux from slave?

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From: George Durbridge
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 00:00

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Louis Hissink (hissinkl@bigpond.com) wrote:
: I had an old Connor drive (400Mb) which was set up as hda (first IDE
: master). I also had a second master on IDE 2, which had 2G free.  Installing
: Linux worked OK, but as I also have to use NT, swapping data was
: ,..........difficult.

If you can spare the space for a small FAT16 partition for shared data,
both of these OS can read from and write to it, as well as running on
their native file systems.  Similarly with Win9x & OS/2. 

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From: gdurb@aardvark.apana.org.au (George Durbridge)
Subject: Re: [FNG question] Lilo/win98/2 hard disks. Boot Linux from slave?
Date: 1999/01/09
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