RE: [SLUG] Aah - good to see that Y2K hasn\'t changedsomethings.

[Andrew Langton <andrewl@nospam.babcockbrown.com>]

> From: DaZZa [mailto:dazza@nospam.zip.com.au]
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2000 jon@nospam.fl.net.au wrote:
> 
> {Seriously bad character set there, JKon. You using Winblows or
> something?}
> 
> > I have a 13Gb drive working fine on my NT box at home 
> > (about to be blown away !!). It\'s IDE !!
> 
> So how the F&&& did you manage it? I can NOT get Winblows to 
> install on
> this trhing - no soap. Ths BIOS recognises it as 13 gig - 
> hence Linux's
> ease of install - but Winblows just flat out refuses.

To get NT to install on a bigger than 4GB volume, you need to create the
NTFS partition on another NT box, then take it out & put it into the
destination machine and go from there.

Andrew Langton
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