On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 07:04:46PM +0200, Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 04:30:10PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote: > > Another idea: why not support an installation in an ext2 filesystem > > which is really a big file on a Windows VFAT partition, mounted using a > > loopback device? That would do away with all the partitioning; that > > would only be needed when the user wants to get rid of the relatively > > minor performance penalty of the extra FS layer. > > Are VFAT partitions still common? I thought Windows 2000 and XP both > used NTFS by default. And last time I tried (about a year ago, I think) > mounting NTFS read-write on Linux was still flaky.
That may be true, but most of the Windows users I know still have a 95 variant on their computer. Daniel -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------\ | I haven't lost my mind, | | I know exactly where I left it. | \------- (if (not (understand-this)) (go-to http://www.schemers.org)) --------/