Re: Total loss with 2.4.0 (release)

[Peter 'Luna' Runestig]

From: "Mike A. Harris" <[e-mail]>:
> >> Whwnever you install/upgrade any OS and especially M$ ones on a
> >> multiboot machine, you should always ensure ahead of time that
> >> they will play nicely together, agree on geometry translation
> >> schemes, partitioning schemes, etc, and that any option to take
> >> over the whole machine is turned off.  Windows NT defaults to
> >> "fry the whole disk", but I don't know about ME or W2K as they
> >> are IMHO just bloat + new pictures, etc..

In what situation would NT4 default to "fry the whole disk"? I've mixed
Linux/DOS/Win98/NT4/Win2000 several ways on various hardware (>8 GB disks),
with no problems at all actually. Maybe "one single person having a problem
does not mean in any way that this is the way it occurs for 100% of the
userbase" ?

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