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RE: Keeping Windows95/98 from seeing Linux drives?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank N. Stein)
Fri Nov 13 20:00:14 1998

In-Reply-To: <01BE0F4D.4AEE9240.brichardson@lineone.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 19:00:27 -0600 (CST)
From: "Frank N. Stein" <kcsmart@microlink.net>
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On 13-Nov-98 Bruce Richardson complained about RE: Keeping Windows95/98
from seeing Linux drives?:
> Some confusion here: Windows can't see Linux 'partitions' (so a drive
> with 
> one vfat partition and several ext2 partitions appears as a small
> windoze 
> drive) but it can see a drive that hasn't been configured for it.  I
> don't 
> know of any way to tell Windows to ignore a drive: it thinks
> everything in 
> sight should belong to it.

Well, except for tweakui. It doesn't really make 'Doze ignore the
drive, it just doesn't let it get displayed or messed with.


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