[ale] Window Chopping

[Van Loggins]

Not a problem.

Now if I could just find a job where these useless bits of information 
could get me a paycheck again I would be in business. :-)



John Mills wrote:

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>Thanks for the info.
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>On Sat, 28 May 2005, Van Loggins wrote:
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>>Message: 5 Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 11:49:06 -0400 From: Geoffrey 
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>>>I don't know that XP will install on fat32, but I could be wrong.
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>>It can, but it has a limitation of not being able to be larger than a 30 
>>gigabyte fat32 partition if you use the Windows XP installer to create 
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>I do have notes on WinXP re-installation onto fat32 that suggest the Win 
>installer can do this, but I wasn't aware of the size restriction. That's 
>not a problem here, since I plan a 20/20 split.
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>My reason for going fat32 is the [mis?]understanding that Linux would not 
>successfully mount the NTFS files as read/write. I definitely need to pass 
>work between the two settings. If I can mount the WinXP NTFS space as 
>read/write, I can repartition and/or reinstall as NTFS.
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>TIA for any real information on my FUD response here.
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> - John Mills
>   john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu
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