The best solution - install your winxp on fat32... you can read and write on it... and having partition magic is helpful too in case you want to delete your winxp parrtition and dedicate the whole disk or computer for a linux box. :-) On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 07:53:46 -0700, Scott Talbot <talbotscott@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 07:38, Matt Upton wrote: > > I'm installing Fedora Core 2 on a Dell emachines computer and want to > > partition the hard drive for 2 operating systems (Linux Fedora Core 2 > > and Windows XP). Now my processor is AMD64. My Windows partition is > > of type NTFS, can I still read and write to Windows from Linux Fedora > > Core 2 or do I have to change the Windows partition type, or should I > > maybe make 3 partitions and re-install Windows XP in a different > > partition type VFAT or something. > > > > I'm using Partition Magic 8.0 to partition my hard drive and for the > > dual boot. > > > > Please help, thanks, > > > > Matt Upton > Matt: > > Working with NTFS is problematic at best RedHat has not supported it, > so at the very least it means having to find solutions elsewhere, many > (all?) solutions require a re-compile of your kernel, which will need to > be done everytime you get a new kernel and also waiting for someone to > provide the module to allow you to do it. > > Personally, I find it much better to shrink the NTFS, and get a good > size FAT partition for both OS's to share, especially for things like > mp3s which you will want to use from either OS. > > Scott > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- Stubborn http://www.detest.org/ http://www.coldlostsick.net/
