Hi Kurk.
The only thing I meant was that if you were installing Debian, Debian does not contain a modulefor natively supporting NTFS, which I believe is the default filesystem for xp. However, if you found a way, like you said, creating he phat partitions with a dos-level disk and/or zip disk, then there should be no problems.
----- Original Message -----
From: Kirk Wood <cpt.kirk@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: can't load zipspeak
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > Hi. First, xp and linux can't coexist on the same machine. They just
> > create problems. ....
>
> This is just plain wrong. xp and linux can coexist just fine. Don't listen
> to this advice.
>
> I don't have xp, but this is where you would go for windows 2000 and it
> should be somewhat like this. Go to the Control Panel. Then go to
> Administrative Tools. Then you want to open Computer Management. In the
> left pane you will find something for Disk Management. I doubt it will
> allow for non-destructive resizing.
>
> Now before going too far, if you have a zip drive and floppy you can set
> this up without needing to create a dos partition on your hard
> drive. Format a zip disk with fat. Then put the files onto that disk. You
> will also bootable floppy with the dos level drivers.
>
> Another option is to add an inexpensive disk and make set it up with a fat
> partition.
>
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