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Re: Dual Booting & Read/Write Capability
by bikeNomad (Priest) on Jun 22, 2001 at 22:02 UTC
    Trying to steer this back on a Perl track:

    You might want to look into VMWare, which allows you to run NT under Linux. I do this to test cross-platform compatibility of my Perl modules.

    Anyhow, some excerpts from the Linux 2.4.4 Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt:

    To mount an NTFS volume, use the filesystem type 'ntfs'. The driver currently works only in read-only mode, with no fault-tolerance supported.

    If you enable the dangerous(!) write support, make sure you can recover from a complete loss of data.

    Please note that the experimental write support is limited to Windows NT4 and earlier versions at the moment.

    This would imply for me that you're not going to be too successful.

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Re: Dual Booting & Read/Write Capability
by xphase_work (Pilgrim) on Jun 22, 2001 at 22:39 UTC
    I would suggest going to Linux.org's Documentation, Trying IRC at #linux, or #linuxhelp, etc. or try searching Google's usenet archive.

    From what I've seen(I don't use linux, I'm a BSD person myself), linux has a large support network that would probably be much better at answering this suggestion then perlmonks.

    Also, my personal advice is that NTFS doesn't play nice with any other OS, so I wouldn't use it. Also are you going to be using the special features of NTFS? If not it might be better just to stick with Fat32. I know Win2k runs on it.

    And finally, I find it strange that you mention Samba, as there is no possible way that samba can do this. Samba only works through SMB shares, and in order for that to happen, Win2k must be booted.

    -xPhase

    P.S. Just so you know I did not downvote your post, but from what you said in the CB I felt I'd post something

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Re: Dual Booting & Read/Write Capability
by BigJoe (Curate) on Jun 22, 2001 at 22:23 UTC
    Usually what I do for dual booting is set up a partition that is vfat. Linux has no problem reading and writing from this. I make like a 5 gig partition out of 20 so that the two OSs can share data. If you Win2k server isn't a production box you can also make all your M$ partitions vfat and allow Linux the ability to use your entire hard disk.
    Update If you are looking for Linux answers look at http://www.linuxdoc.org

    --BigJoe

    Learn patience, you must.
    Young PerlMonk, craves Not these things.
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