[Techtalk] Sharing an extended partition with Windows (was: Desktop OS?)

Mary Gardiner linuxchix at puzzling.org
Wed Jun 6 01:06:18 EST 2001


On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:26:24AM -0400, Martin.Caitlyn at epamail.epa.gov wrote:
> Hi, Mary,
> 
> Yes, I've gotten Windows NT to share a large extended partition with both
> Linux and OS/2.  Here's the catch:  I cheated.  I used Partition Magic to
> setup the partitions the way I wanted, and used OS/2's Boot Manager to
> select the OS.  LILO lived on the first sector of the Linux partition, not
> on the MBR.  Obviously, I used non-Linux tools to make this work.
> 
> I know it's not the answer you wanted, but it can be done.

Has anyone ever done it solely using Linux's and Windows' fdisks? I had a long
long argument on IRC as previously mentioned with someone who claimed it was
easy but both our boxen were set up some time ago :)

Mary.

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