Unfortunately NTFS is still read only. Spencer
On Monday 25 November 2002 01:25 pm, David Geoffrion wrote: > UMSDOS is an implementation of a unix-like filesystem on top of a FAT > filesystem, where each file would reside as a separate file in the FAT > filesystem, but this shouldn't be necessary if you're doing an actual > 'disk image' within another partition. In the latter case, your image > would probably contain an ext2 or ext3 filesystem, and the host > partition should be able to be NTFS or any other type of partition that > Linux can mount read/write. I'm not sure what the status of NTFS is > right now, though -- it used to work for read/write on the 2.2 kernels, > but then it dropped down to read-only support with the introduction of > 2.4, and I'm not sure if read-write functionality has been fixed yet. > > Mounting an image on another filesystem is accomplished via loopback, I > believe. You'd probably need an initrd image to get it all set up. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jason Pepas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 9:13 PM > Subject: Re: [Siglinux] >>Question<< > > > and if you don't have partition magic, there is the option of creating > > a filesystem inside a file, and installing linux there. I haven't > > tried it, but Winlinux will do this automatically. I am not sure how > > to do it with other distros. > > ah, nevermind. winlinux is not supported under NT, 2000, or XP. > Probably due > to the fact that umsdos is for fat32 only (ie, not NTFS). > > -jason > > _______________________________________________ > Siglinux mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux > > _______________________________________________ > Siglinux mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
