gharris999;450866 Wrote: 
> I do want to compliment you guys on your VortexBox work.  I've enjoyed
> playing around with the distro.  I'm wondering, however, if you'd
> consider adding a page to your documentation to cover a case like this
> one: where the user is adding a 2nd hard disk already formatted as NTFS?
> Your documentation seems to cover adding a new, unpartitioned HD,
> partitioning it and making a xfs file system.  But I've got to believe
> that there are plenty of windows Squeezebox users out there ready to dip
> a tippy-toe into the linux world.  VortexBox ought to be a natural for
> them. I'm guessing that lots of them have NTFS formatted audio drives
> ready to go.  Mounting one of those on a VortexBox machine with no ready
> documentation help might be a steep challenge for a linux newbie.

You can add an NTFS drive to VortexBox but it's not for the faint of
heart. There are a few tricky problems. I always tell new users to
attach an NTFS drive to a windows box and copy the files over the
network.

This works every time and is much easier.


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