On Mar 4, 2006, at 7:51 AM, Andrus Moor wrote:
I have notebook which can be booted into Windows XP/NTFS and into
Linux.
Notebook is not connected to any network. There are separate IDE
partitions
for both OS.
I want same Postgres 8.1 database to be available in both modes.
I think I must put Postgres database cluster into a NTFS partition
which can
be written from Postgres running on Linux or into Linux partition
which can
be written from Postgres running in XP.
Any idea how to implement dual OS database ? Is there a ready to
install
Linux distro which supports this ?
I've done this in the past (for windows client development) by booting
linux in a vmware partition and running the database there, then
connecting
to it from windows. It also avoids the whole rebooting issue altogether.
Given a decent X server running natively on Windows (the cygwin X
server is workable, if not great) it makes for a good blended
development
environment.
Cheers,
Steve
