Yes, I was aware of the fact that Linux won't have access to NTFS formats. This is why I installed the XP home edition on a fat32 fs. It's not as effecient as the NTFS format, but I have no problem reading the disks/partitions in XP. Besides, the only thing I use XP for is to play games and the like. I don't retrive email in M$ and only browse to get pattchs and mods for my games, oh and to use Game Voice, Team Speak, or Roger Wilco - which ever flavor my on-line team decides to use at any given moment. On Wednesday 19 June 2002 22:52, Ragnar Steingrimsson wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Curtis Rey wrote:
agc wrote:
I have suse 7.3, I have xp installed and running on my pc, I want to instal suse on the same pc can I do so ? without lossing info fom my xp installatinon? shoudl the lilo go in the mbr? can both os be on the same machine? cheers
PS suse may be on a different HD.
I have had no problems with XP and SuSE 8.0 on the same HD. The one thing to note, however, is that XP generally sits on NTFS formated partition and in order to make space for linux, that partition needs to be shrunk. The caveat is that as of now, only commercial products such as Partition Magic can do this task. Likewise, your NTFS partition will not be accessable from Linux because the software to read it is not yet available (in the works). Furthermore, like a previous writer, I had no problems with writing Lilo to the MBR partition--but I do prefer the disk...