Mandrake 8.2

[Patrick Thurmond]

Actually I am not going to dual boot anything. I have a hotswap hdd bay, 2 hdds, one running winxp 
the other I am going to install mandrake on. I also have an internal hdd that has an NTFS 
partition. Its a 60GB hdd and I would like to have it work on both OSes. I only came up with the 
idea recently. But I was hoping I could do it without reformatting. Considering that drive has like 
30GB of data on it right now. Is there any way of disabling linux from viewing the 2nd drive (aside 
from pulling the IDE cable every time)??? I really don't want to mess up the 2nd hdd.
Rich Edelman <edelman at speedscript.com> wrote: Mandrake 8.2 isn't going to be in the stores until 
late April, if I'm
correctly remembering what I read on Mandrake's site. Samba can read an NTFS
partition, it's really filesystem independent. Although from what you said it
sounds like you want to dual boot Mandrake and XP on the same machine.
There's kernel level support for READING an NTFS filesystem, and
experimental/dangerous support for writing to an NTFS filesystem, but the
writing portion of that will fsck up your drive. Guaranteed.

Rich

On Thursday 28 March 2002 07:17 pm, Patrick Thurmond wrote:
> Hi everybody, I was wondering, does anyone know of any local stores that
> are selling Mandrake 8.2 yet? Also can Samba read an NTFS partition created
> by a Winblows XP (Xtra Poop) machine?
>
> Just wondering because I finally have a swappable drive situation now and I
> want booth bootable HDD's to be able to access a 60GB hdd running an NTFS
> partition created in XP.
>


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