Mount Other filesystems
shrek-m at gmx.de
shrek-m at gmx.de
Wed Jul 30 11:50:43 UTC 2003
Maynard Kuona wrote:
>But Mandrake and others do it,
>
install windows after linux,
you will have the nt-boot-loader in your mbr.
should redhat follow this but_others_do_it - example too ?
> so it must be relative harmless
>
sorry, i feel really good with the redhat-way,
do you know the average windows-user skills and argumentation ?
@home-user or @work-user or @work-admin
eg.
a few weeks agoo @home-user
win-user> can you please install linux on my pc ?
me> sure, dual-boot with existing w2k_fat16
me> but first without access on your win-partition!
a few days later
win-user> since you have installed rhl
win-user> the soundcard is damaged!
win-user> and this win-program crashes every time!
win-user> and this win-problem, and this ...
me> oops,
me> i don´t believe
me> sound in linux, works
me> in windows, no sound - 1 minute later
me> do you know the button "mute" ?
me> the evaluation-time for this program is exceeded !
me> and ...
win-user> I have done NOTHING! this was LINUX!
win-user> LINUX must have changed something on MY WINDOWS-PARTITION!
win-user> ...!
me> per default rhl is not able to read/write your win-partition
me> this cannot be the reason.
win-users-son> this sound-problem is since 1/2 year,
win-users-son> dad bought new speakers, without success :-)
win-users-son> the other problems are not new :-)
win-users-son> i like linux :-)
> because I
>do not see complaints about it. Its a easy enough to do it in fstab, but
>I think it should be available on install. I thought anyoe could do
>VFAT. I mean, mkfs can make FAT partitions. I do not use NTFS because I
>want my other partitions to be available under Linux.
>
>On a side note, is there any such thing as ext3 drivers for windows so I
>could maybe access these partitions under Windows.
>
not tested, but i have really no need for it
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm
you can search google
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shrek-m
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