[Gllug] NTFS fix under DOS

[Simon Bunker]

Oh yeah NT 4.0 (never seem 3.5 - don't want to either) is the beast of
satan - makes windows 3.1 seem wonderful for christs sakes! And unpatched
competely unuseable. There are are quite a few other limits but it's mainly
due to the IA32 platform so I guess that affects Linux too - 2Gb in RAM at
once, 4 Terrabytes of hard disk and a couple of Gb RAM - or can Linux get
around this (Intel platform)?

> From memory, so please stick red-hot flames in my inbox if I'm wrong:
>
> NT 4 initially couldn't be installed on a partition larger than 2GB
> (indeed, it refused to handle them properly in general, from what I
> recall) Service Pack 3 raised this limit to something a bit more
> reasonable, but you couldn't resize the disk volume with the system
> files on it, so you were stuck with a C: drive of at most 2GB. At
> least, using the tools provided with NT.
>
> PITA. Fortunately, you can get around this problem with a network
> install of a Service Packed version of NT --- for a while I had a
> couple of machines with NT and a 6GB C: drive. I don't think that the
> limitation exists under 2000, though, so it's largely irrelvent.
>
> > > Here's hoping you junk the windows gumph :-)
> >
> > It seems to be a very server orientated market here in which case I'd
agree.
> > I'm coming from a Desktop perspective and the other way around seems to
be
> > truer - there are still quite a lot of Win only programs that I use a
lot
> > which don't have alternatives on Linux.
>
> Wine is not an emulator. It's your friend.... ;)

Yeah but in most cases Wine Is Not Enough ;o) I'd harly call it the stablest
environment in the world - Native is always better. I have a feeling things
like 3D Studio Max (which I use quite a bit) would have problems using WINE!

Simon
http://www.rendermania.com/
UIN 11123737

> Cheers,
>
> Simon
>
> --
> I _am_ pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw
> itself.
>     - Linus Torvalds
>


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