[tlinux-users:08650] Re: dual boot

I ... don't think so, Bruce.

First of all FAT _is_ a uSoft proprietary format; it's been reverse-engineered long enough that we've all forgot.  Second, USB sticks commonly come with a FAT default format, so the FAT partition on hard drive should function identically.

Beyond that, NTFS has been reverse engineered long enough that it's appeared in several Linux distributions.  First as read-only, but now as r/w.  So Liliane could probably use NTFS in lieu of FAT.  

Caveat: not handy to test all this because I run a Windows-Free Zone


On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:49:35 -0700 (PDT)
Bruce Mincks <[email protected]> wrote:

> Isn't there a problem here, that Windows Vista/Office won't let you save any document in any format that isn't proprietary to Microsoft?
> 
> Liliane dos Santos Machado <[email protected]> wrote:  Hi,
> 
> I also have a Satelitte.
> Windows Vista has an excelent (and that all it has) hard disk manager. You can use that to resize your hard disk.
> What I'm used to do is to create 4 partitions:
> 1 Windows (already there) 
> 1 Linux
> 1 swap linux
> 1 fat for all data
> 
> Additionally, I point the folder "My Documents" fo The WinVista  to the data partition.  However I do not install the home in this data partition. I simply ignore the folder home... 
> It makes me able to use my data in Linux and Windows.
> 
> I installed Fedora 7 and everything is perfect. However I dont know how to configure the sound card. So, I dont have sound... Thats the reason I use the WinVista, to VoIP calls. 
> 
> Regards
> Liliane
> 
> 
> 
>   2007/9/19, Bill Nickels <[email protected]>:  I have a Satellite A205-S4777 with Windows Vista and want move to Linux and
> dual boot.
> 
> Any positive or negative experiences/comments with specific distributions
> would be helpful.
> 
> 
> Thank You,
> 
> Bill Nickels
> 
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