[Techtalk] Linux on NTFS?

[Tracey C]

You wrote Kenneth Gonsalves->
> On Wednesday 11 Jan 2006 2:15 pm, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
>> Can't you just allocate one NTFS partition for MS-Windows XP, and
>> format the others to be something more Linux-native, like ext3 or
>> ReiserFS?
>
> its possible (probable) that winxp did this on installing.

Yes, Windows is horrible about insisting that it take up your whole hard
drive during the installer.

> Mandrake
> for example can shrink your xp partition and create other linux
> friendly partitions while installing through a neat gui - i am sure
> other distros have similar utilities

Mandrake's disk partitioning manager is wonderful. It's easy to use and
stable. Mepis, which is Debian based, uses QTParted during the installer
to manage partitions. It is also easy to use and stable.

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Tracey Clark