On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Grant Edwards <gra...@visi.com> wrote: > On 2009-03-25, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > <SNIP> > > I have a latptop that's set up to dual boot Gentoo and XP. In > the past I booted into XP to run one or two apps (mostly H&R > Block Tax Cut). The NTFS partition is rather small, and > every time I want to do something under windows, I end up having > to futz around trying to free up disk space.
No!! Too hard! I'm set up the same way on one of my machine but I installed the Windows ext3 driver. Now my Windows programs can access or even be installed on a Linux partition. I created a directory on the ext3 drive where I installed the Windows programs and don't have to mess with these disk space issues anymore. Granted, I wouldn't really trust this driver on a ext3 partition I *really* cared about so I'm careful about where I allow it to write, but it does work me and hasn't caused any problems that I know of in the 2 years I've used it. http://www.fs-driver.org/ I like the vmware solution better though as I can use Windows from within Gentoo. It's fun to see a complete Windows desktop in a window, but it has it's problems also. Overall it's probably the primary way I'll be going in the future though. Hope this helps, at least with ideas. Cheers, Mark
