[Gllug] XP - Linux dual boot

Ian Northeast ian at house-from-hell.demon.co.uk
Thu Oct 2 21:44:34 UTC 2003


Alain Williams wrote:

> You will need to rebuild the redhat kernel if you wish it to read the NTFS partition.

It's probably best to have a FAT partition for shared data in addition
to the XP NTFS one. Linux NTFS support is pretty flaky and in particular
enabling writing is downright dangerous. Both XP and Linux are perfectly
happy with FAT.

Regards, Ian.

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