I currently have my drive with a Win 2k (ntfs) partition and and a linux 8.0 
partition.  The truth is I had limited success with seperate drives and Grub (lilo 
works fine though).  So I currently use one huge drive for both.  However I have seen 
a USB drive formatted fat32 for data so at home he uses Linux 8.0 and at work he is 
forced to use Windows XP and that works great.  So in short the swapping of HDD's is 
probably the best solution.  But Mark Said before make sure the data drive is on fat32 
or you will have problems.

Mark Yarbrough

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark C Ballew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 2:52 PM
To: James Washer
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [RLUG] dual OS question


On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:36:59PM -0800, James Washer wrote:
> 
> if you really want to play with the extra disks, that will obviously work... I've 
>never had any trouble just using a small windows partition, and then using the rest 
>of the disk for linux. 

In my experiance, windows consumes more disk then linux. Those windows games just love 
to hog disk. Then again, I usually don't have kernel source laying all over my disk in 
linux.

Mark

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