As an experienced NT administrator I would advise that you NOT install anything using FAT. Always use NTFS. In the far distant past system recovery of NTFS systems may have been an issue, but no longer since there are NTFS rescue programs available. Also, using FAT instead of NTFS, especially on system partitions, can create security issues.
Regards, Dustin --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Information Systems Consultant http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear In the beginning the Universe was created. This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tim Fournet Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 11:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [brluglist] Can Linux access W2K/WinXP filesystems? NTFS may still be a problem though. Linux doesn't get along with it very well. If you have the choice, I'd recommend installing your test systems with FAT anyway. It makes disaster-recovery easier in general. If you're stuck using NTFS, then maybe a dd of the whole partition will work? Although it'll require that you restore to the same geometry. -Tim On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 11:02, Tim Fournet wrote: Check this out: http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ -Tim On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 10:47, John Hebert wrote: Cool! Thanks Kevin. Your link had a link to this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/partimage, which is what I was trying to accomplish. I'm setting up a software test environment for multiple OSs, and needed to restore various OS images as needed. John Hebert -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Bucknum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 10:41 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [brluglist] Can Linux access W2K/WinXP filesystems? http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ -----Original Message----- From: John Hebert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 10:27 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [brluglist] Can Linux access W2K/WinXP filesystems? My quick and dirty testing says it can't, but where would I go to get the official scoop? John Hebert System Engineer I T Group, Inc. http://www.it-group.com ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================ ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
