On Tuesday 11 March 2003 01:22 am, Guy Rouillier wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adolfo Bello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "MDK Mandrake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 8:36 PM > Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 - Dual Boot > > > Winblows don't support any Linux file system. So put Winblows > > partitions > > > first because it will stop reading the partition table when it > > encounter > > > the first partition it doesn't understand. > > Both of these statements are untrue for Win2k/XP. I read somewhere > (sorry, don't remember where - I'm pretty sure it was on the ext2 > project page) that there is an apparently fairly stable filesystem > driver for Win2k/XP that allows it to use ext2 filesystems. And I run > Win2k, and it has no trouble just skipping partitions it doesn't > recognize and continuing on with ones beyond that. I KNOW that there are 3rd party utilities to allow win2k/xp to use EXT2 filesystems, but I would not trust them as much as I trust linus on any filesystem, and sure would HATE to loose important data just cause I wanted to try stuff out.... that said NTFS file systems can sit anywhere on the disk, as long as a valid MS/WIN filesystem is on the first logical partiton of the first IDE channel hard drive master. if you format the disk for linux only, and go to install win2k later, you will have problems, unless you left at least 10 megs as a dos partion in the begining.
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