On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 08:39, Steven Broos wrote:
> I barely use windows any more, but in some cases it's necessary.
> I'm thinking about purchasing VMware.  It's no freeware, but I know it's
> worth the money *wink*

Note here.  If you don't need a winders product newer than ME (Munged
Edition) Win4Lin is a LOT cheaper and very reliable.  5.0 even does
directX.

James

> I can access the files on ext3 through samba file sharing.  It looks
> like you're working on 2 different computers (with the same hardware),
> with a network in between.
> 
> Maybe this is a better solution for you ?  This way you don't need to
> reboot for changing OS, and you can run your mandrake all the time :-)
> 
> Steven
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 14:09, Greg Meyer wrote:
> > On Friday 13 June 2003 07:58 am, David Hláčik wrote:
> > > Hi to all, i wanna use both mandrake and linux mandrake, but i do not know
> > > which filesystem is best. Because i am using ntfs, but linux can only read
> > > ntfs, and fat32 is too old and primitive.
> > >
> > Mandrake can read ntfs, and there are utilies that allow windows to read ext3, 
> > so if you only need to be able to see the contents of the other partitions, 
> > then ntfs and ext3 should work fine.  If you want to share data, like word 
> > docs and mp3's, set up a shared fat32 partition that both os's can read and 
> > write from.  The primitive nature of fat32 should not affect the performance 
> > of XP sincet eh os and it's programs are still running off an ntfs partition 
> > and only shared data resides on fat32.  This is the safest way.
> 
> 
> 
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