Chris Maiden schreef: > Hi All > > I am feeling quite happy! I have got Fedora Core 5 up and running on my > Workstation and apart from a few hiccups all is well. > > Now I am getting adventurous! > > I am thinking of setting up my HP NX8220 laptop with dual booting for > Windows XP Pro and Fedora Core 5. > > I have looked on the internet at a few tutorials and I noticed that > Linux will not read NTFS partitions so I wanted to check my thinking. > > So should I create 3 partitions, one for Windows NTFS, a partition for > Fedora and then a 1 Gb partition as FAT32 so that I can "transfer files" > between the two? I know I'll be limited to a Gb this way but is this the > best way to go about it? > > Also wondered if anyone had come across any major problems installing > Fedora Core 5 on the HP NX8220. > > Any tips and information really appreciated!!! > > Regards, > > Chris > Linux does support READING of ntfs file systems. Writeing is not supported. (in an open source version, commercial ntfs drivers that support writeing exist) Don't know for sure if FC 5 supports reading of ntfs as i don't dual boot. -- Facts are stuborn things
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