Groovedude Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 okay ladys, 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 as for the poop comment...whatever i guess. go to lindows.com and read for yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovedude Posted March 11, 2004 Author Share Posted March 11, 2004 as for the poop comment...whatever i guess.go to lindows.com and read for yourself. as for the useless post kemical guess your smart (Y) anyway i have looked at: http://help.lindows.com/cgi-bin/lindows.cf...ser/std_alp.php didn't really find what i was looking for. :wacko: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaKeY Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 https://forum.lindows.com/forum/postlist.ph...=&Board=Install Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovedude Posted March 11, 2004 Author Share Posted March 11, 2004 "sttroopers" thanks (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
memNOC Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 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.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovedude Posted March 11, 2004 Author Share Posted March 11, 2004 i didn't think it upgraded from windows :| i have v4.5 *full edition* if that chnages anything. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 as for the useless post kemical guess your smart (Y)anyway i have looked at: http://help.lindows.com/cgi-bin/lindows.cf...ser/std_alp.php didn't really find what i was looking for.?:wacko:: putting your and smart in the same sentence isn't quite the comeback is it considering its nature. you're an a.s.s. thumb deez up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Veteran Posted March 11, 2004 Veteran Share Posted March 11, 2004 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.. :| ..... 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted March 11, 2004 Veteran Share Posted March 11, 2004 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: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovedude Posted March 11, 2004 Author Share Posted March 11, 2004 thanks for the help.. guys !! and kemical if you have nothing good to say. dont say anything ! :| thank you ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted March 11, 2004 Veteran Share Posted March 11, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovedude Posted March 11, 2004 Author Share Posted March 11, 2004 yeah im not a guy to pick enemys... !! :D no worrys kemical i probably read into a little more than it was.. (Y) no hard feelings.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 its all gravy baby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldo Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted March 11, 2004 Veteran Share Posted March 11, 2004 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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