[Techtalk] Linux on NTFS?

[Kathryn Andersen]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:31:25AM +0000, mgmonza at sdf.lonestar.org wrote:
> 
> Hello, listmembers,
> 
> Can Linux be loaded on an NTFS formatted drive?  I'm pretty sure RedHat 
> can't, but I wanted to try Debian anyway.
> 
> This woud be on a dual boot, dual drive box with Windows XP on the smaller 
> drive and maybe using some disk space on the larger on.  I'd like to put 
> Linux entirely on the larger one.

Is there any particular reason why you have to keep the whole drive as NTFS?
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?

Kathryn Andersen
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