My system (an E-machine Office Depot "rebate special") came with the
NTFS Windoze partition using most of the 160GB drive, but there was also
a 6GB FAT32 partition, some sort of recovery boondoggle, and only half
full so there's 3GB of space accessible to both systems.
I used a version of Parted (found on a bootable Linux rescue disk of
some sort, a LiveCD should work too) to shrink the Windoze NTFS
partition down to 12GB (which left it about half full) then
repartitioned the remainder for Linux (two 32GB system partitions so I
could do non-destructive upgrades, a 70GB /home, and swap). Of course I
have OOo on Linux ... not sure if I ever bothered to put OOo on Windoze,
I use it so seldom I'm not sure what's there. But I'm sure it would work
OK if I did.
Jim Hartley
John Meyer wrote:
dougM wrote:
James Knott wrote:
dougM wrote:
I have a dual-boot system too, Linux and XP, with OpenOffice installed
in each. What I do is transfer files to a USB flash drive -- you can
get those for very little on eBay. Then each OS can read it, treating
the flash drive as an external drive, and you can drag and drop a
document wherever you want it within each.
Why not just use the FAT32 partition? It's easy to do and you won't
forget to copy to the flash.
I don't know how to do that, James. Can you refer me to some
instructions? Thanks.
-- Doug M.
In other words, what I think he is saying is just use the Windows
partition to save your documents and skip the flash drive. That will
work if the XP partition is formatted as FAT32. If it's NTFS, on the
other hand, the support is still a little bit hit and miss.
Then again, in addition to either a flash drive or using the other
partition, you could always use a site like http://www.4shared.com or
http://www.xdrive.com and save the files there.
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