On Tuesday 12 February 2002 12:42 am, Benjamin Bradley wrote: > My roommate wants to install Linux as a backup OS. He just bought a new > system with WinXP installed on it, and it's running NTFS. Now, I've heard > bad things about NTFS and Linux. And as far as my last installation, > Mandrakes partition utility didn't even recognize NTFS as a valid FS. Does > anyone know if there are any issues with installing Linux on top of WinXP > that should be avoided?
WinXP has a weird bootloader which fights with linux which makes things complicated. There are instructions somewhere, google it. Linux has ntfs read support, write support is 'experimental'. Kernel complile might be necessary. _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
