Re: [newbie] file system accessible by windows and linux

2001-12-24 Thread Brian Parish
Probably the easiest would be FAT32. You'll find that when you've installed Linux, it will mount it for you by default. You'll find it from Linux as /mnt/windows, or /mnt/win_c - something like that. /Brian On Monday 24 December 2001 4:34 am, you wrote: On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 11:21:47 -0600

Re: [newbie] file system accessible by windows and linux

2001-12-23 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 11:21:47 -0600 kenn yahoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: Greetings Well, my xmas gift to myself -- a new laptop -- arrived via FedEx yesterday, and I've successfully created a dual boot with windows and linux ... now that i know i can do that, today's

Re: [newbie] file system accessible by windows and linux

2001-12-23 Thread Ed Tharp
M$ products (win9x) will only be able to read fat, fat32, vfat, and on nt or 2000, ntfs Linux has no such hangups. On Sunday 23 December 2001 12:21, you wrote: Greetings Well, my xmas gift to myself -- a new laptop -- arrived via FedEx yesterday, and I've successfully created a dual

Re: [newbie] file system accessible by windows and linux

2001-12-23 Thread Derek Jennings
Just use your windows partition for your Dreamweaver work. Linux will be able to read it there. Mandrake will automatically configure itself to access your windows partition at /mnt/windows derek On Sunday 23 December 2001 17:21, kenn yahoo wrote: Greetings Well, my xmas gift to

Re: [newbie] file system accessible by windows and linux

2001-12-23 Thread kenn yahoo
Message - From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 7:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] file system accessible by windows and linux On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 17:55:05 -0600 kenn yahoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: thanks, derek

Re: [newbie] file system accessible by windows and linux

2001-12-23 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 20:22:38 -0600 kenn yahoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: Thanks so much, Mike ... as it turns out, everything was ALREADY configured exactly as you described, so the windows partition was already available, i just wasn't smart enough to know it ... i'm