Re: [plug] linux install on win2k

[Ian C. Sison]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Pablo Manalastas wrote:

>
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Rehashed Dominion wrote:
>
> > any sw/utils that will allow linux install on an
> > existing win2k machine?
>
> If your win2k was installed over vfat, you can install
> the umsdos versions of most distributions (RedHat for
> example has umsdos install).  If your win2k was
> installed over NTFS, you're out of luck.  Linux can not
> write on NTFS (it does not know how to).

Actually it can, but Linux NTFS-write is unstable. It's currently a kernel
compile time option that is not enabled in most production distro kernels
from major vendors.




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