[ale] HELP! Installing Linux over Windows

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 19:45, Geoffrey wrote:
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > <loads of stuff snipped out>
> > The best way to do a dual boot with XP is to wipe the drive, partition
> > the drive with fips, install XP on the first partition using NTFS for
> > stability, or fat32 if you must access the filespace from Linux (a
> > better way is to make a third partition that is fat32 so both XP and
> > Linux can see it OK),
> 
> This prompts the question.  Would it be possible to use Samba to access 
> the ntfs stuff safely?  So it's on the same machine, you share it via 
> Samba and then mount it/access in the same way.  Anyone ever tried to do 
> this?

That won't work as the framework for sharing (the XP system) will not be
running. To access the system (other than with vmware et al) would
require the ntfs kernel patch. Read has been fairly stable for a while.
Write is still a crap shoot with Russian Roulette for a chaser.  The big
issue is still the registry handling of open and closed files.
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