Subject: Re: Questions
From: shortpier (shortpier@shortpier.is-a-geek.com)
Date: Sun May 11 2003 - 06:40:18 AKDT
On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 16:05, Greg Madden wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 11:17, Matthew Dunaway wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> > I disappeared from the net for a while, but now I'm back.
> > I just bought and installed Red Hat 9. I really like it a lot.
> > However, I have the same dual-boot setup as before.Windows XP and Red
> > Hat. My XP is the NTFS file system and so I can't play my music with
> > XMMS cause I can't access XP. Is there a setting I can change or
> > something so I can play my music without having to reboot into XP?
>
> The only reliable way to access data on a NTFS partition from Linux is
> though a network share. A dual boot system can't do this of course :)
> The easiest way would be to create a partition formatted with fat32 to
> share between Linux & XP. Both OS's can read/write to fat32.
>
> You may be able to enable ntfs file system support in the kernel and
> read the files on XP from Linux. The ntfs support in Linux is rumored to
> sort of work for reads and ,if you care about your data, not reccomended
> for writes.
I just installed Mandrake 9.1 (PLF) on my laptop. I was able to resize
the NTFS file system and It mounts it as /mnt/windows... The question
is if it is readonly or read-write. I can read from it but I have not
tried to write to it.
Hope this helps
Shortpeir
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