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  From: Andrew duxorth <awd@seol.net.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 21:12:45 +0930

Re: Setting MSDOS attributes etc

-----Original Message-----
Date: Wednesday, 22 September 1999 19:11
Subject: Setting MSDOS attributes etc


>I then experimented and found that the MBR did not care what attributes
>were set on NTLDR, it loaded correctly.
True, However they prefer to have the s attribute and some machines require
it
>
>I then did a disk-to-disk copy from an NT disk to the FAT partition I am
>going to load NT onto and all worked OK using a boot floppy and XCOPY.

>I then did a disk-to-disk under Linux (cp -avf) to the FAT partiton and NT
>still booted.
Would there be a way to do this for NTFS.  As most NT systems run on NTFS.

cya Andrew

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