[ale] HELP! Installing Linux over Windows

[Eric Melo]

Yes.... it is possible to view NTFS, you simple enable auto mount for the particion. SEE BELOW

mount -t ntfs /dev/xdxx /mount/point

PS: you need to compile the Kernel for NTFS support.(>2.4.18)

[]'s Eric Melo
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Started: feb 1996  
"Every Where With Linux"


--- Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
>James P. Kinney III wrote:
>> <loads of stuff snipped out>
>> The best way to do a dual boot with XP is to wipe the drive, partition
>> the drive with fips, install XP on the first partition using NTFS for
>> stability, or fat32 if you must access the filespace from Linux (a
>> better way is to make a third partition that is fat32 so both XP and
>> Linux can see it OK),
>
>This prompts the question.  Would it be possible to use Samba to access 
>the ntfs stuff safely?  So it's on the same machine, you share it via 
>Samba and then mount it/access in the same way.  Anyone ever tried to do 
>this?
>
>-- 
>Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
>
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