Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/02/19/16:23:05
> > What are the differences between all the different versions? What
> > are the advantages of each distribution?
>
> Er, that's a tough question for me to answer, since I've only really
> used RedHat.
So why did this all come about? Is there no standard linux because the
source code is all available, so various people/companies modified it their
own way and now there's no "normal" version?
> If the MBR gets trashed, it's not too bad. I've managed to recover
> from that several times. What you do need is a set of boot disks.
Oh dear - I don't have a floppy drive in my machine :-(
Never actually needed one: CD-ROM + hard disk + network = everything until
now. Maybe I'll have to splash out a tenner and get one.
> If you want to restore Windows's control of the MBR, boot up from your
> DOS/Windows boot disk and type 'fdisk /mbr' to make DOS/Windows
> bootable again.
Ahh yes, I thought I remembed there was a secret fdisk switch. Cheers :-)
> If you want to use FAT disks with Linux, I recommend you use kernel
> 2.2.10, if you're using a 2.2.x kernel. I experience FAT filesystem
> corruption with an earlier release.
What kernel version is included in RedHat 6.1?
> There are utilities for reading Linux disks from Windows '95, Windows
> NT, e.g. Explore2fs:
Cheers, that looks very useful.
> You can read NTFS from DOS - see:
> http://www.sysinternals.com/
I've tried that - it doesn't work properly with NTFS 5 (Win2000) disks.
Works fine with NTFS4 though.
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