CHARLES ANGELICH wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

CA>> That experience has made me 'edgey' when accessing my
CA>> working W2K hard drive setup from _any_ version of Linux.
CA>> :-) 

RJT> That sort of hassle can be avoided by using mtools. I only
RJT> deal with floppies in msdos format, the ext2 (and similar)
RJT> formats aren't that efficient for floppies anyhow. 

CA> I have been told that Linux users were using MINIX formatted
CA> floppies because that format is more efficient.

Yeah,  sometimes that's the case.

CA>> I have a 233mhz machine not being used at present that I
CA>> want to use for Linux _only_ and avoid the threat that
CA>> anything might scramble the hard drive on me. :-) 

RJT> There ya go. How much ram does it have? 

CA> Right now, none. I've some extra memory laying around I can
CA> install. Should be around 128 meg or so.

Good start.  I have 320M in the one workstation I use,  but only 64M in the
"server",  something I should probably fix one of these days. 
Soon,  I think,  because I need to shut it down and add some more HD space
pretty shortly.

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