[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David Merrick wrote:
I normally make the Windows
partition the largest because Linux will be able to see and use that
space, but Windows will not be able to see or use the Linux partition.
Good luck,
Michael.
Sound advice down to there. However linux will not be able to write to the
windows partition unless you make it FAT, which is a mistake from what i
understand with any modern version of windows.
Yeah oops! I should have added that you need to format the Windows
partition as FAT32! Of course, XP defaults to NTFS, which creates all
sorts of write permission difficulties for your average linux user.
However windows will access ext2/3 partitions thanks to the drivers
available from http://www.fs-driver.org/
Hmm, I've had no experience with that particular software so I can't say
whether a new user will find this process very easy.
So on that basis, put your data on an ext3 and both windows and linux can
write to it.
Which is what you and I might do, Nick, but perhaps a first timer might
want to try a quite basic setup? We'll leave it to David to report to
us his decision and results :-)
Cheers,
Michael.
