Linux & NT...will it work?

[SnowFox]

My boss wants to run a program that needs coldfusion. Which apparently doesn't run on Linux yet. Is it possible to partition the hard drive to run both NT and Linux? If so, do you have any insight for me? Keeping in mind that I am very new to the networking world.

[ninjaz]

Yikes! This is one of the things that bothers me about lots of these companies (like allaire), they offer daemons for Solaris/sparc, or NT (and maybe 1 other non-intel unix), so if you've got only an Intel box, you're out in the cold. I personally refuse to use anything of that nature, and let their sales staff know why... http://discussions.linuxplanet.com//wink.gif

In any case, you can run Linux and NT on the same hard-drive. In fact, there's a mini HOWTO about it. I don't know how useful that would be - assuming that you're speaking of a server system, only having each side available sometimes wouldn't seem very useful at all.

Also, watch out for M$ operating systems scrambling the hard-drive. My g/f recently had macaffee scan destroy her partition table (got it back using fixdisktable under Linux), and a friend of mine lost an entire hard-drive while on his dual boot machine due to the CIH virus.

To summarize, my recommendation is to a) run cold fusion on your sparc server or b) run seperate machines for Linux & NT.