Re: a small update on my situation...

[Tony Dietrich <td transoft demon co uk>]

Luke

With respect to the best way to organise your system, you say you are
dual-booting with Win2000Pro, but you don't actually mention a partition
for it.(Apart from the NTFS data partition)
Is it currently on the system at all?

I'm not a win2k expert, but since you don't need win2k to be on NTFS,
why not scrap that partition (backup the current data onto the linux or
win2k partition for a while) and reformat it to FAT32?
Linux can natively read/write to FAT32 (but NOT to NTFS) partitions, as
can win2k, so sharing data via a FAT32 partition shouldn't be a problem.
(This is your solution #2)
Just place ALL your music/media/data onto the FAT32 partition, then both
OS can read it.
Then you don't need the NTFS module :P (personally, I don't trust it.)

The swap partiton is normally 2 1/2 times the size of your RAM.

TD

On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 21:46, Luke wrote:
> and a couple more questions...
> 
> I was the poster with all the problems on the installation (most of which I
> have come to find out weren't caused by faulty installation disk or mistakes
> on my part - just lack of research on my part!)  "Talked into installing Red
> Hat 8.0" was the title of my last email.  To everyone who replied - thank
> you very much for your help.  I apologize for the seemingly stupid
> questions.  I spent some time pouring over the documentation and doing
> searches on various things, and wound up find the information you guys
> referred me too.  Thanks for getting me on the right track there.
> 
> If you care to read the latest (and make sure I'm not wrong on anything),
> please see near the bottom  Next though, I have a question on the best basic
> setup of my system.
> 
> Currently, I have 3 partitions.  hda1 is my Red Hat OS (~4 Gigs), hda5 is
> the NTFS  partition (no OS, used only as a data partition in the past)
> (~9Gigs), and hda6 is the Swap (~886MB)
> 
> Now, I know that I don't need a swap file that large (I have 128MB of ram,
> is it twice that much that you normally want? What would be the best?
> ...ah..I'll just see what the Docs have to say...), and I would like to have
> a partition that I could read and write files to that is accessible by both
> Windows and Red Hat, mainly to store things like music/movie/picture files
> on.  Would you recommend a certain way of doing this?
> 
> There are a couple ways I figure I could do this, but I don't know if anyone
> of them would be right.
> 
> #1:   3 Partitions - one for Linux, a smaller one for Win2kPro, and the
> largest one for data.  Win2k and the data one would be in FAT32, as to be
> accessible for read/write by Red Hat
> 
> #2:   2 Partitions - one for Linux, another for Windows2k (FAT32), and store
> all my info on that partition.
> 
> Now, I have heard that there are things you can do to get access to the
> linux file system on a windows machine, if that is the case, would it be
> best to just through all the multimedia files onto a data partition
> formatted for linux?
> 
> Of course, I could be doing this the worst way possible, (and probably am),
> so your thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> ------
> The update on my earlier problems.
> 
> Unfortunately, I have a winmodem.  unless I can find a driver (I'll be
> finding out the chipset of my modem tonight when I go home), I guess that
> means duel-booting till I get either an external modem or I'll probably
> break down and get cable modem service running again....Thanks for your help
> in pointing out what should have been the obvious! :grin:
> 
> As far as the partitions - well, hopefully I'll have the ntfs driver
> installed and the file system mounted by tonight.  Many thanks to whomever
> pointed me to the http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html link.
> I learned more about NTFS in the past couple of days than during the whole
> time I had Win2kPro and WinXP installed on my computer!
> 
> The MP3 thing?  I should have read the documentation, a simple download and
> install and that should be working tonight (::luke beats himself over the
> head::).  Yes, I know, stupid on my part.  I suppose I'll learn some day.  I
> apologize for the stupid question!
> 
> The CD Audio thing...well..not high on my list of priorities..I'll get to it
> eventually...
> 
> Again, thanks to everyone who replied!
> 
> -Luke
> 
> 
> 
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