[ale] Linux (vmware) and NT

Robert Hoffman rob at frankenlinux.com
Sun Jul 23 00:25:57 EDT 2000


This only works if your Primary NT drive is formatted with FAT 16. If your C: drive is formatted with NTFS, you're SOL. Of course, you have no file ownership with FAT 16... but then, security on little things like the SAM database can't be that important.

-Rob

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Gary Maltzen <maltzen at MM.COM>
To: ale at ale.org
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 10:00:32 -0500

>
>>Second, make an emergency bootdisk for NT using... well, I guess you don't really have this option do you? ;-)
>
>FYI: Yes, there IS a process...
>
>1) Format a floppy using *NT* (not DOS or W9x)
>2) Copy the following files to the floppy
>
>    C:\NTLDR
>    C:\NTDETECT.COM
>    C:\BOOT.INI
>    C:\NTBOOTDD.SYS (if present)
>
>You now have a floppy capable of booting NT
>
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