On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, William Schwartz wrote:
> >it goes on the first bootable partition, PERIOD,
>
> Well, not true, if you are using NT, you can install it on what ever
> partition you would like. All it needs is the NT loader to exist on the boot
> device. This could be a floppy...
Hmmmm. Windows and DOS both insist on being on the boot
device, which means what they see as the first partition
of the first disk. In actuality, this turns out to mean
the first partition described in the boot disk's Master
Boot Record, so by fiddling the MBR they can be made to
think they have this privileged position when in fact they
are not on the first physical partition. There's a dandy
program called the Ranish Partition Manager (supplied with
several non-Debian Linux distributions) which makes use of
this and allows one to put Windows (including Win 9x) and
DOS on seperate partitions, with true--rather than simulated
multi-boot capabilities.
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