And Linux partitions can be accessed from windows:
http://www.howtoforge.com/access-linux-partitions-from-windows
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 12:49 +, Roger Dodd wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Just to add, linux now has perfectly good read-write stable drivers for
> NTFS (the native WinXP filesystem). Th
Dear all,
Just to add, linux now has perfectly good read-write stable drivers for
NTFS (the native WinXP filesystem). This means you no longer need to
create a separate FAT32 partition for sharing data between the two OSes.
Cheers
Roger
On 19/1/09 11:25, José Trincão wrote:
Dear Xie,
you s
Dear Xie,
you should seriously consider what Johan Turkenburg suggested:
create a 20~30Gb ext3 patition that you mount as / and the rest of the
disk as ext3 mounted as /home. That way, if you have to reinstall
linux, all your files will be safe. You would end up with the
following partitions
running again.
Zhijie
----- Original Message -
From: Xie Jiabao
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 1:52 AM
Subject: [ccp4bb] Create a dual boot windows-linux machine
Dear all,
My sincere apologies at the outset for a non-ccp4 question.
Perhaps the fact that 8.04 is the Long Term Support version is useful to
some people?
FWIW, I tend to create /home as a separate partition in gparted, so that
when I install a new (version of an) OS, I can keep my files etc. Maybe
a little fiddly for the first time installer, but worth keeping
Both 8.04 and 8.10 (the current Ubuntu version -- why not install
that?) have gparted, a very easy to use gui partition editor
interface. The defaults are almost certainly what you need, and you
can rearrange the sizes of the partitions interactively from the
install CD.
On Jan 17, 200
Hi Xie,
My way to do this work is:
1. Create the swap partition (4Gb) as logical one
2. Then create another Ext3 partition (taking the rest of free space) as
logical one
3. When install the Linux, mount Swap partition as Swap and Ext3 partition
as /
That's all you need to consider. You don't need
Dear all,
My sincere apologies at the outset for a non-ccp4 question. I am trying to
install ubuntu-8.04.1 (64-bit) linux on my windows xp containing core2 laptop
so as to create a dual boot system. At the moment windows xp is installed on a
30GB partition and there is another 20 GB FAT32 parti
