On Thursday 18 November 2004 11:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As mentioned in my previous mail, I'll run a dual-OS system. Since l have > only one drive, I'll divide it into two partitions, one for Win XP and one > for Debian. I think this is a good way to start off. When one fails, I can > use the other to troubelshoot via the Web. I forsee doing this a lot in the > initial stage. As another poster has said, you need a swap partition as well, 1-2x RAM.
> Question > 1. How easy is it to switch from one OS to another? Is rebooting the only > way? You set up lilo or grub and boot to one or the other. If you use paritionmagic (costs), they have a bootmagic utility to handle this as well. You might look into "colinux". Whether it will run off your linux installation I do not know. It can boot knoppix and run it in a window. > 2. Linux uses ext2 or ext3 filesystem, XP uses NTFS. Can files be swap > between the two? More likely I wouldl be copying Linux file to XP, e.g. log > files required for troubleshooting There are, as posted, other alternatives as well. Ext3 is simplest, I think. Linux can mount NTFS read-only but has full FAT32 support. I will send you on private cover, a little ext2 file explorer for windows, "explore2fs", (ext3 is ext2 plus a journal so if the thing goes down, most if all data is fully recovered. Wish windows could do that!). I would not use it for writing filese, though it can.
