I have successfully parttitioned my hard drive and loaded ubuntu on it so its dual booted. No problems
On 1/1/07, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[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.
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