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[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>
" 
" On Jul 10, 2009, at 12:28 PM, adh at an.bradford.ma.us (Sandwich Maker)  
" wrote:
" 
" > " From: Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
" > "
" > " On Jul 9, 2009, at 15:06 , Dan Sikorski wrote:
" > "
" > " > You can also mount a filesystem on an empty NTFS folder.  For
" > " > example, i could mount a partition on windows as c:\users or c: 
" > \users
" > " > \newuser or whatever.  Just set it up in disk manager, it's easy,
" > " > just not too commonly used.
" > "
" > " Yes, I've done that.
" >
" > if you wanted to move docs and settings to another slice, you'd also
" > have to do the ms registry hack anyway - right?
" 
" Mounting a drive as a subfolder isn't a registry hack, it's supported  
" by the WinXP/Server 2003 GUI as I recall.

yes, but documents and settings isn't ordinarily empty as it's where
xp expects to put user home dirs, complete with registry settings.
that's the hack i was referring to.  apparently there's an easy way to
clue xp into this at install time but no easy way to change your - or
its - mind later.

idle q - having heard of triple-boot systems, is there a common fs
type that xp, osx, and s10 can all mount?  besides floppy, hsfs, and
the like.

" > [dim memory] dos 3.1 had 'join' - i recall using it in the late '80s,
" > putting 40M drives in and having to make 2 partitions.  i made d: the
" > big one and joined it to c:\user or c:\home or something, then put an
" > autoexec to cd the users into it...
" 
" WinXP markedly different from Win3.1/WfW.

true; just pointing out old ms roots for the ability.
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