A question on installing - FC5 32bit and M$Win2000

[Frank-Michael Fischer]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Stephen Liu wrote:
>
>
>   
>> I wonder whether;
>>
>> 1) installing Win2000 first OR FC5_32 first
>> 2) would their installation affect each another, i.e. the latter
>> install OS will influence the first OS already installed.
>>     
>
> I would install Windows first,
> because if you install it later, and have some problems,
> you are stuck.
> If you have problems installing Linux
> you can probably work out what they are and how to solve them.
>
> Incidentally, you should try to install Windows with VFAT rather than NTFS,
> if you want to share data with Linux.
>
> I would download and burn Knoppix at some point;
> it is invaluable for working out what is happening
> if there are problems.
>
>   

In my experience a much better solution is: Windows 2000 first, yes, use
NTFS whenever possible for the Windows installation. Then install Linux
using ext3 file system (default under Fedora) for any partitions you
want to share with Windows, e.g. the /home partition. Then boot Windows,
go to .

http://www.fs-driver.org <http://www.fs-driver.org>

gives a near perfect and stable solution I am using on two video
production systems with excellent results for quite some time now. E.g.
on one 120 GB partition. My daily sharing needs are never less than 10
GB with an average of about 16 GB. The only really little drawback: you
need an ext3 (or ext2) partition for sharing. And ext3 is well supported
on the linux side, good fsck (just a bit on the slow side).

So as a rule I am using ext3 plus fs-driver on Windows for all /home
partitions on dual boot systems.

FMF