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One thing that I've been reading is that there are issues with using NTFS with Linux, that Linux cannot write to NTFS and that you can't use the Windows partition for NTFS. I just wanted to know if there's any way to use NTFS for the Windows partition? FAT32 is infinetly inferior and I want to avoid using that.

Get a good partitioning program. The best one out there, IMO, is Partition Magic 8.

Use it to create partitions on your hard drive, leaving some space for the Windows partition with NTFS on it. For the Linux one, you can use the partition program to format it in ext3, and make the swap space along with it.

So you have an NTFS partition for Windows and a ext3 Linux + Linux swap space. Now, the common practice here is to make another partition that's FAT32. This is where all your "shared" stuff like mp3s, games, whatnot goes. This way, you can read it from both Windows and Linux.

Linux to me is a pain in the fourth point of contact. I've installed it as dual-boot on both my machines, but I find I rarely boot into Linux...

I'm dual-booting win2k and linux, and I'm running NTFS on the Windows partition. Mind you, I never try to write onto it from Linux; I only try to read from it. I find web development much easier on Linux, although games obviously work better on Windows.

Is there any way to have Windows read ext2/3 or ReiserFS?

Drooling Iguana wrote:Is there any way to have Windows read ext2/3 or ReiserFS?

Should be posible.

Go download the Windows DDK & a copy of the source code fo reading/writing ext2/3 or ReiserFS and write a driver for it.

As for is it done? Probable not. But it is possible.

I just used FAT32, w/ bigger win partition, and I will add loopback files as necessary.

IIRC, Mandrake 9.1 includes support for writing to NTFS.

Darth Wong wrote:I'm dual-booting win2k and linux, and I'm running NTFS on the Windows partition. Mind you, I never try to write onto it from Linux; I only try to read from it. I find web development much easier on Linux, although games obviously work better on Windows.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought you could only read NTFS from Linux, not write to it? When did that change?

Grrr. Twice I've tried to install Linux, and twice the installer (for Red Hat 8, the disk came with the book I bought on how Linux works) crashed. I'm going to try to run it in text only mode, AFTER I search the Internet for some hopefully bug free Red Hat ISOs.

RH9 is out and pretty good, but the inclusing of NPTL breaks some older binaries.

Vertigo1 wrote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought you could only read NTFS from Linux, not write to it? When did that change?

Writing to NTFS is unsupported and subject to risk.

phongn wrote:RH9 is out and pretty good, but the inclusing of NPTL breaks some older binaries.

So, you can't run some Linux programs on Red Hat 9?

Certain ones will require different binaries. Codeweaver's Crossover, for example, requires an update.

Mandrake 9.1 has the same issue.

That comes from their using different versions of GCC, doesn't it? Binary incompatibility or whatnot.

Crayz9000 wrote:That comes from their using different versions of GCC, doesn't it? Binary incompatibility or whatnot.

No, a new library (NPTL). The ABI has remained constant.

So if they have the source code avalable, can I just re-compile it?

*sigh*
Three times I have tried to install. Twice using the Install CDs that came with the book, and once using the most recent Red Hat 9 ISOs AFTER I confirmed the MD5 files. Each time, my computer has crashed.

My motherboard is evidently supported and, while there are some issues with USB hard drives, shouldn't cause an installer crash. Is there anything else that could be wrong?

Not a clue about your install crashes, sorry. Oddly, Mandrake gave me hell during install but RedHat worked perfectly.

And yes, you should be able to compile from source without a problem.

Well, try putting the drive on a ribbon cable inside your case and see what happens.

I don't HAVE a USB hard drive. That was just the only error ever reported for the motherboard (aside from a network issue which I got around).

Do you have an Adaptec SCSI card?

Crayz9000 wrote:Do you have an Adaptec SCSI card?

Nope.