On 1/13/06, Joseph A Gumbosky
Hi,
I'm dual booting SuSE 10.0 Boxed Ed. with WinXp Pro NTFS. If I use Partition Magic to create a small FAT32 partition in XP, does anyone know if SuSE will be able to automatically detect it? Or, will I have to do some complicated work to get SuSE to recognize it?
I'd like to have a partition to use that has writable files from both OSes. I'm also thinking about experimenting and maybe putting BeOS Personal on the new FAT32 partition since NTFS gives it gas. BeOS for Linux Personal wants to go on the boot sector, but, I don't think 100Megs will be big enough.
I'm guessing that this will be a logical partition, since there's already a boot sector, one WinXP NTFS sector, Linux swap, and Linux partition.
-Joe G.
I usually go with another approach. I do not spare a FAT32 partition. Linux can read NTFS, so when you need to work on something, just copy it from the NTFS system to your linux partition. There are tools for windows as well which can read ext2/3 and reiser partitions, so when you need to, you can copy back to windows and continue your work. Yes, it is no so good, as you keep 2 copies of the files, but solves all these headaches with the shrinking of a partition, creating a new one, etc. And ... after all, I do need less and less to boot windows anyway. -- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)