If you want to use Windows because of coursework related-issues, a good alternative may be a virtual machine. There are a couple options. I know Spencer Tipping has been using one on his Ubuntu box for .NET development. If you see him in the Lab ask him to post on the list for more details on what he thought about it.
Alex On Jan 21, 2008 10:06 PM, Huan Truong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have two OSes installed on my laptop, Ubuntu (hardy) and Vista, > which is set up to dual-boot on my machine (I currently have some > courses on MS Office and the likes so no wonder I have to keep Vista). > I want to access some documents on both OSes - so I plan on create a > partition to store my data and music... > > The last time my solution was to create an ext3 partition and have > ext2fsd to install the ext3 driver on Vista and access that ext3 > partition on Vista, but there were 2 limitations: 1, I can't execute > files which are larger than 2MB on that partition (it threw out an > error, device malfunction or something, but when I copy that file to > another partition it ran fine again) 2, If linux was not properly shut > down the driver would refuse to mount. > > I thought about formatting the partition as NTFS but linux (ntfs-3g) > will refuse to mount my partition if windows is not properly shut > down. > > My last resort was to format the partition as FAT32 but I could not > store any files which are larger than 4GB. This is so inconvenient > because I have some DVD ISO files to store. > > Any suggestions to my problem? Thanks in advance. > > - Huan, Truong > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with Subject: unsubscribe > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- Alex ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
