Lindows Question


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i don't give a flying monkeys on how much you love this poop and want to marry it.

i want useful information. not opinions. -thanks

Can lindows be dual booted along side windows xp?

Can lindows read NTFS drives / partion / and use data on them, like my backed up DVDS?

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NTFS = teh n0.

Microsoft doesn't like anyone touching their precious file system, so not much is possible in terms of write support for UNIX.. there are some advancements in the area with people claiming that writing on NTFS from Linux is indeed possible without corruption, but i just won't test my luck until Microsoft decides to let us all in on the secret..

until then, FAT32 works like a charm.. :yes:

and as far as dual booting goes, isn't Lindows like an upgrade to the existing Windows install? i don't think Lindows supports dual-booting, but i'm sure it's possible.. besides, why would anyone want to install it separately when there are dozens of distros out there that do a better job at user-friendliness (Mandrake for one).. the only reason to go with Lindows IMO is the upgrading factor: turn Windows into Linux kinda thing..

but to each his own.. and again, don't mess with NTFS writing, you can read from NTFS partitions fine, just don't set write permissions..

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and as far as dual booting goes, isn't Lindows like an upgrade to the existing Windows install? i don't think Lindows supports dual-booting, but i'm sure it's possible.. besides, why would anyone want to install it separately when there are dozens of distros out there that do a better job at user-friendliness (Mandrake for one).. the only reason to go with Lindows IMO is the upgrading factor: turn Windows into Linux kinda thing..

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Yes Groovey-dude-o you can dual boot. Just install windows first and Lindows will detect it during its install and whack it in the boot menu :)

There is a read-only implementation of NTFS for linux at http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net

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Since the NTFS thing got a little off-topic with the whole "write" issue, let me say that Linux can read NTFS perfectly well.

Write is pretty much a no-no. But if you want to just be able to read documents, mp3s, movies, whatever you had in Windows, it works well. :yes:

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thanks for the help.. guys !!

and kemical if you have nothing good to say. dont say anything ! :| thank you !

Awwww... kemical is a pretty good guy. I think that everyone is allowed consideration for a few posts that may have been made after working a 14 hour shift, or late at night, or otherwise in a bad mood.

While his original post wasn't very helpful in this case, it wasn't offensive or rude.

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Wrong, 'captive-NTFS' (aka 'write support for NTFS') is getting along great now. I'd say it's moved from extremely dangerous to a smaller risk, ie proabably the same as letting windows write to the drive itself.

It works by using the exact same driver that windows uses under WINE (or at least they used to - I think they have may rewrote it now) so really it's a small risk...

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Wrong, 'captive-NTFS' (aka 'write support for NTFS') is getting along great now. I'd say it's moved from extremely dangerous to a smaller risk, ie proabably the same as letting windows write to the drive itself.

It works by using the exact same driver that windows uses under WINE (or at least they used to - I think they have may rewrote it now) so really it's a small risk...

That may be true, but I am going to let this new functaionality mature a bit before recommending it.

Plus, I have no need to read/write NTFS. :D

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