[ale] Window Chopping

[John Mills]

Van -

Thanks for the info.

On Sat, 28 May 2005, Van Loggins wrote:

> Message: 5 Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 11:49:06 -0400 From: Geoffrey 

> >I don't know that XP will install on fat32, but I could be wrong.

> It can, but it has a limitation of not being able to be larger than a 30 
> gigabyte fat32 partition if you use the Windows XP installer to create 
> the partition.

I do have notes on WinXP re-installation onto fat32 that suggest the Win 
installer can do this, but I wasn't aware of the size restriction. That's 
not a problem here, since I plan a 20/20 split.

My reason for going fat32 is the [mis?]understanding that Linux would not 
successfully mount the NTFS files as read/write. I definitely need to pass 
work between the two settings. If I can mount the WinXP NTFS space as 
read/write, I can repartition and/or reinstall as NTFS.

TIA for any real information on my FUD response here.

 - John Mills
   john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu