Re: installing RH9 on an XP machine

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Nigel Wade wrote:
> alexander aristotelis org wrote:
>
> > So, you've all told me how to install it on a new computer. I partition
> > XP, and leave the rest unpartitioned.
> >
> > One more Q.
> > I have a computer that has Xp pro already installed and sees the entire
> > HDD as NTFS.
> >
> > Can I install RH9 on it without reformating / losing the data?
> >
> > Thank you all!
>
>
> In addition to the advice given by others, I'd add that if you want to 
> share data between XP and Linux then create a FAT32 partition for that 
> purpose. XP won't understand any of the Linux filesystems without 
> additional commercial software. You can add read support for NTFS to RH 
> but write support is *not* advisable. Both understand FAT32 for read and 
> write. It's not ideal for various reasons, but it's the best option 
> available.

I agree about RW on NTFS.  VERY dangerous.  However, if you must have
NTFS, pre-built NTFS modules for RH8.0 and RH9 are available from:

	http://www.rhil.net/kernelstuff/modules.html

Both RO and RW versions are there (I know, I built them).
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