Re: Converting the Pastor

>      I'm "repairing" our minister's notebook which is basically a Windows disk 
> jammed to overflowing in C: and next to empy in D:, and unable to do any real 
> work (with sloshing in C:, compression and indexing turned on). Seeking 
> reliability and familiar with what I do, he's asked to "see this Linux thing" 
> (as well as getting the machine usable again in Windows XP) so I'm planning 
> to reconfigure his machine and give him a relatively small Linux bootable 
> partition, OpenOffice and Evolution, as well as returning the XP partition to 
> usability.
>      But something I see about the single physical disk drive has left me 
> confused: Booting a Knoppix CDROM and doing "cat /etc/fstab" I see a single 
> partition, hda1. Similarly, "cat /proc/partitions" shows hda and hda1 with 
> hda1 *almost* the same as hda. I think that says there is one partition on 
> the hard disk. Period.
>      But when running (badly) in Windows XP (Home Edition) as booted from that 
> disk, Windows Explorer sees both a C: and a D: drive -- I thought those were 
> separate partitions.
>      WTF?