Jeremy Wilkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > whilst doing a hd install from the 9b1 iso's I found I could > install from the NTFS partition. The boot disk found the NTFS(v5)
No -> you "thought" you could install from the NTFS partition, that's a different story :-). > partitions, but refused to install from them because it didn't > recognise the filesystem. > > NTFS read support is seems stable enough, is this limitation just > because its not included in the install kernel, is there a reason > not to include it? Yep, the bootdisk can detect NTFS partitions (one line of code), but we can't install from NTFS partitions, first because ntfs.o of the kernel is not stable even in read mode as some people claim, second because it spends some disk space and when choice has to be done, vfat and reiserfs are preferred. > XP means that NTFS is now included in consumer windows versions > so more and more users will potentially require NTFS support. Yes, probably in the future if it's stable enough we'll provide it. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
