Nick Rout wrote: > On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:17:46 +1200 > Rik Tindall wrote: > > >> Which requires FAT32 as the guaranteed safe format to share read/write >> capability, on that shared storage partition, from both Windows & GNU/Linux. >> >> Cheers >> > > or ext2 / ext3 > I would recommend, for ease of use for someone near the bottom of the learning curve, to use FAT32 as it will just work without further work from either windows or linux. Definitely (again because it's the easiest way) you want to create this partition PRIOR to installing your choice of linux distribution. Though having said that, if you have already got linux installed, is pretty easy to get it to see the partition if you create it afterwards.
Roger
