Hi J.
if i`m right, you simply want to eather make space within the
primary partion 1024 boundry on your NTFS drive as Igor said use PM,
then install RTP there, then have a bootloader so you can boot
whatever whenever.
you should checkout XOSL, it says in the doc that it can boot
NT, dos, win9x, and more.
it has a very nice GUI that you can use a mouse with too, very easy to
setup and use booting to several OS`s when i tryed it a ways back although
i havent try it with RTP yet as i prefer to use a binary file so i can
make backup to my mitsumi CR-4804TE CDRW drive in windas.
(by the way whats the prospect of a CDRW fileing system for RTP,
any time soon from QSL or 3rd party drivers ?, this would be one of
the most useful things i can think of as i could just wack a CDRW
in there and boot when i find out how to make bootable HDs and floppys
and perhaps one day CDRW).
the XOSL also comes with Ranish Partion Manager, my copys dated
march 14th 2000 V2.38 beta 1.91.
it says http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/par is the contact
address the the latest RPM doc
remember i take no responsability for this or what it might do
to your drives, plus the doc says something about a patch and what he
tested it on, heres a section of the Randish doc.
Partition Manager Announcements only list: partman-announcements@onelist.com
Partition Manager Discussion and Questions: partman-discussion@onelist.com
Archives are available at http://www.onelist.com/group/partman-discussion
Settings for FAT file systems. There are three values that you can set in
FAT-16/FAT-32 boot sector.
Starting sector - its value should correspond to starting sector (hit F4)
of the partition for the primary partitions and is 63 for logical
drives. If you want to turn logical drive into a bootable primary
partition among other things you will need to change this value.
Drive number - you need to edit this option if you want to boot DOS
or Windows from the second hard drive. This number must be set
to 128 (80h) for the first hard drive and 129 (81h) for the
second. Also, note that you have to hide all primary FAT
partitions on the first hard drive in order to boot DOS or
Windows 95 from the second.
Partition size - this one is the most interesting number for us. It
tells us how many sectors there is in the partition. If we make
it smaller DOS (or Windows 95) will think that the partition is
smaller, thus we can shrink partitions (see below).
Hint: if you press ‘X’ all three, starting sector, drive number, and
the partition size, will be set to their expected values.
The final FAT-16 option is a patch for DOS boot sector - it resolves
the problem when DOS cannot boot from the partitions over 2G from
the beginning of the disk. In addition to this, it allows you to
dual boot MS-DOS and OSR2, which was not possible before, since
OSR2’s FAT-16 boot sector has bugs. Press “F6” to install the patch,
then choose OS that you wish to run and press F2 to save changes
to the boot sector.
The patch was tested with MS-DOS 6.22, PC-DOS 7.00, DR-DOS 7.02
Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98 (Aug98), and Windows NT 4.0 (SP0-5).
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Installing NT to partitions above 2G from the beginning of disk.
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Prepare empty space or primary FAT-16 partition for NT.
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Hide any other primary FAT-12 / FAT-16 partitions.
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Boot from the NT Setup Floppy Disk #1
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When NT asks whether you want FAT or NTFS file system choose FAT.
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Let NT copy all the files from the CD-ROM.
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Upon the reboot run Partition Manager and install special patch for
Windows NT into FAT-16’s boot sector. To do that first select NT’s
partition and press Enter, then press F6 to install patch, then,
in the dialog box choose “Windows NT” and finally press F2 to save
changes to the boot sector.
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For the first time reboot from NT partition while holding down
‘Ctrl’ key. (This will load alternative NT loader “$LDR$”).
Let NT finish the setup procedure and ask you to reboot.
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Reboot computer. Everything should work now.
If you need to install NT 4.0 above 4G then you must either have SP5
or get at least files “NTDETECT.COM” and “NTLDR” from SP5 and update
them on the hard drive after the first reboot.
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Paul May, Manchester, UK
Team Phoenix Core
