Re: [mu TECH] A new installer for DOS

From: Miguel Angel (maacruz@navegalia.com)
Date: Wed May 03 2000 - 01:18:28 CEST


On Tue, 02 May 2000, Michele Andreoli kindly wrote:
> On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 08:45:00AM +0200, Jef Knoors nicely wrote:
> > I can send a copy of a NT4 cdrom if you need it by mail. (evaluation
> > version)
>
> Oh, thanks jef, but I have an evaluation copy of NT4. In the past,
> I installed NT4 on my hard-disk, but a this moment I reused the
> partition for other purpose.
>
> In my pentium, I've much free disk space, but is not so easy
> install NT4 in the desidered partition. I do not trust in
> MS installer, because there is no trusted way to enstablish the
> destination partition. I fear the installer may plugh my
> important data without notifyation :-) MS product expects a whole
> disk and often starts reformatting. I'm not such able guy to
> control this feature.
 
Using a disk editor like norton disk editor to change the type of all the
partitions you don't want windoze to touch (for example to CPM :-D) helps a lot.

Saludos

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