John Moen wrote: >On Thursday 21 March 2002 01:36 pm, Liam R.E.Quin wrote: > >>A couple of WIn XP users have said to me they installed Mandrake Linux >>(both 8.1 and 8.2) and /mnt/windows wasn't there. >> >>I had an 8.2 user run diskdrake, and the windows partition (C:) was >>shown grey "other", i.e. not recognised. >> >>It might be a good idea to get diskdrake to recognise an ntfs file >>system automatically rather than making people edit fstab afterwards, >>if possible. >> >Diskdrake recognises an ntfs files ystem ! >I altso dualboot with win XP and it works fine >this is taken from lilo.conf : >other=/dev/hda1 > label=old2_NT > table=/dev/hda > >Ok! I can't get to it from Mandrake, but I think that's ok. > >John > > > Remember:
NTFS on winnt4 == secret, proprietary filesystem NTFS on nt5 (w2k) == secret, proprietary filessystem incompatible with previous NTFS on XP==secret, propeietary filesystem incompatible with w2k version all of course are upgrade-compatible (sorta) All require reverse engineering. And the patches weren't ready when 8.1 was released, so it is not amazing at all that reading and writing were blocked. For the old NTFS4, reading and experimental writing are available, and soon the features for reading might be made available for the others. And of course if a user has an ntfs filesystem up, diskdrake will not shrink the partition to make room for Mandrake, so there will be some problems, but so far all the computers shipped with XP installed, which I have seen, are using FAT32. Civileme
