On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 01:11:49PM +0530, N S Srikanth wrote:
>
> I installed PCQ Linux 7.1 with a dual boot option (Win95)
> on a 900 MB partition. Now I see I have only 230 MB free
> space.
This is a very small bit of space (under 1 GB for the whole
thing ... This would be adequate to runc console apps with
freedom, but the moment you add "X" and all the bells and
whistles, you'd find it is owefully short ... About 2 GB is
the bare min if you are considering large apps.
> I would like to install Star Office (it needs 150 MB). In
> Windows I have 470 MB free space (This is a 3 GB HDD).
Dual Boot on a 3 GB HDD, would always leave you cramped for
space from both the OSs. The full Star Office is about 176
MB ( 150 MB for minimals only). Better to drop the idea.
> I have mounted Win Drives in Linux on /mnt directory.
> From inside Linux is it possible to install Star Office
> from rpm package on the windows partition and use it from
> Linux?
>
Yes, possible, but with your space constraints it would not
be worth it. You can mount the Win partition as UMSDOS, and
create a Linux directory under it. You should have UMSDOS
support compiled in your kernel. It is to be mounted from
/etc/fstab with rw access .. The UMSDOS docs gives details.
You could mount this UMSDOS partition as /opt and install
any Linux software and run from it. It may be worth ment-
ioning that most of the distros which run directly from
Win/ DOS partitions use this method.
HTH
Bish.
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