I'd suggest doing your plotting and wordprocessing in linux as much as you can. You have quite a setup there. You are tollerating the setup too much! Linux can see windows partitions to an extent. If your NT drive is formatted with fat or vfat (dos format), linux can read or write to it just fine. You have to mount it. It can be automounted with /etc/fstab. Look at 'man fstab', and look at your /etc/fstab file. You'll need a line that looks like this: /dev/hda1 /dosc vfat defaults, user 0 0 /dev/hda1 means C: drive under windows /dosc is a directory I created When this is put in there, you can mount it with 'mount /dosc' If it is formatted with NTFS, you can read it, but not write to it. In this scenario, you may want to setup a fat partition somewhere to share partitions. To read NTFS, you mount it as well, but you probably need to recompile your kernel with NTFS support. fat/vfat is probably already compiled in to your kernel. However depending on where you got it from, you may need to do it for fat/vfat as well. For your windows productivity software, try using Sun's star office. You can make word and excel format documents. For other windows programs, you can use: wine - emulation - winehq.com win4lin - commercial virtualization softare ~$50 win4lin.com vmware express - commercial virtualization software ~$99 vmware.com plex86 - free virtualization software. Not ready for mass distribution. plex86.org I have only used wine, and am trying to get plex86 to work. Cory -----Original Message----- From: Rob Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 6:11 AM To: EUGLUG Subject: [EUG-LUG:342] Fwd: linux question ----- Forwarded message from Mark Rockhold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > From: "Mark Rockhold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:14:50 -0800 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: linux question > > Hello, > > I'm trying to find out how to do a couple of things under Linux, and I > thought that you might be able to help me. If you don't know the answers, > perhaps you can tell me where I should look or who I should ask to find the > answers to these questions. > > My hard disk is partitioned with Linux and Windows NT. I use the Linux side > for numerical computing, using GNU Fortran and C compilers, and usually do > my plotting and word processing using MS Excel and Word and other software > on the Windows side. I have been using ftp to transfer files created under > Linux on my machine to a different UNIX workstation. After I transfer files, > I get out of Linux, restart my machine, get into Windows, and then ftp the > files from the other UNIX box back onto my machine. > > Is there a better way to do this? I've heard that Linux can "see" disk space > that is partitioned for the Windows file system, but not vice versa. How do > I set up my hard disk so that I can copy files created under Linux directly > into a directory where I can access them later under Windows? Also, is there > any new software avaliable that will allow me to work under Linux and > Windows at the same time, or at least allow me to switch between them > without restarting my machine? > > Thanks. > -Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mark Rockhold > Dept. of Bioresource Engineering > 116 Gilmore Hall > Oregon State University > Corvallis, OR 97331-3906 > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > phone: 541-737-5410 > fax: 541-737-2082 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- End forwarded message -----
