[ltp] R40 - problems with double boot

[SOTL]

I soved the principal issue a bit different on my dual boot.

First I do not want the Windows operating system to be able to affect the 
operation of the Linux operating system or the inverse.

Next I want most data accesable from both systems.

Next I want to be able to reinstall Linux easely. I seem to crash Linux a lot 
due to my playing. I do things that do not work that crash the system. This 
would happen too with Windows except I hate Windows so much that weeks go by 
without my switching to Windows except to run programs that are not available 
under Linux.

Also I have found that there is some Linux data that I do not want available 
to Windows. This is principally Linux programs that are not destributed with 
one of the distributions.

So.

The machine is divided into 3 principal partitions.
In order:
Windows, Common_Data, Linux

Linux is also divided into 
/boot, /, /home, /Linux_Data

On configuration boot is on first sector of HD.

Windows is Windows XP Professional with file type determined by MS.
Common_Data is Fat32
All of Linux is 

Windows, Common_Data, and Linux do NOT have the same type file system.

Frank


On Wednesday 19 May 2004 07:03 am, Atwood, Robert C wrote:
> On my desktop machines I have always created fat-32 instead of ntfs
> filesyetems whenever I had the choice. I have not noticed any
> significant penalty for this; I have some comparison since I do not have
> this choice on every machine I work with.
>
> One of the clear benefits has been the ease of accessing the data under
> Linux eg. when Windoze decides to take a holiday and you still need to
> get the data, or even for repairing the boot.ini (though to be honest
> the times I have had to do that were pretty much my fault)
>
> I have not tried extensive 'experimental' writing to ntfs systems, so I
> cannot comment on how seriously to take the warning .. but it was enough
> to put me off trying.
>
> On the Thinkpad 310 I tried creating a fat16 partition to hold a small
> windows-NT-4 installation but it would not start up. Win-2k would start
> but was just too slow for practical use.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org
> [mailto:linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org] On Behalf Of Michelle
> Klein-Hass
> Sent: 19 May 2004 03:52
> To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> Subject: Re: [ltp] R40 - problems with double boot
>
> On Tuesday 18 May 2004 09:11 am, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> > If you do have SUSE 9.0 then please see
> >
> >   http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html#troubleshoot
>
> I'm thinking about ditching the Knoppix to HD install that's currently
> on my
> ThinkPad 600E and going with SuSE 9.1, since SuSE has a great track
> record of
> working 100% right out of the box on ThinkPads. However, I have to keep
> a
> Windows 2K partition going as well, and I think I might put a DOS
> partition
> for the sake of keeping PS2.EXE and a hibernation partition when I get a
> new
> hard drive.
>
> Would using FAT32 instead of NTFS sidestep this problem? I have no
> qualms
> about using FAT32. Yeah NTFS gives you a journal and extra security
> goodies
> but this is just my laptop, I'm not going to be carrying around secrets
> of
> either State or some big corporation. ;-)
>
> Let me know,
> Michelle
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