--- Bill Cunningham <billcu2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The "best" way to set up dual boot XP/Linux at the moment is with > > 3 partitions: one with ntfs, one with fat32 for exchanging files and > > one with ext3 or whatever filesystem you want to use with Linux. > > Reading and writing to ntfs is currently still a problem for Linux. It > > is getting better but in the mean time it is better to use a common > > fat32 partition if you want access from both operation systems. > > This glosses over swap partition process. In the near future Linux > > will be able to reliably read from and write to ntfs filesystems but > > until then an intermediary is needed (fat32 with its' 4G file size.) > > > > later, > > charles..... > > What can I put in the fat32 partition? I have win98se but my computer is > so new I run into a lot of problems. I have DOS 6.21 on 3.5" floppies but my > coputer has no floppy drive. My xp version came with my computer and it's a > strange distro. I don't see an xp bootloader that gives me an option to load > two different OSs. I can get grub into the MBR. > > Bill > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > Take any modern distro, like Mandriva, probably Mepis/Ubuntu/SUSE - they have NTFS resizer and they will take care of multiboot. Windows doesn't like other than Windows OSes, so the way to achieve multiple booting is through Linux, not Windows. --Sergei. Applications From Scratch: http://appsfromscratch.berlios.de/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
