Re: [PLUG] Question about dual booting install.

[JP Toto <viceclown@yahoo.com>]

Right now (at least in 2.4) the kernel NTFS support is only read. It can 
write but it's considered "Dangerous" in the kernel compile menuconfig 
so I imagine it's not particularly mature. Gabe can probably speak to 
this alot better than I can. Redhat probably won't let you mount the 
partition rw because:

a) write support isn't compiled into your kernel (probably the case)
b) it's a little dangerous to do so Redhat has some administrative 
preventative measure keeping you from doing so.

Either way, mounting an NTFS partition rw in Linux isn't considered 
terribly stable (again, as best I know) so it's not widely supported by 
distros.

You could recompile your kernel with NTFS writing built in but you're on 
your own risk-wise then :-)

Hope that helps.

Cheers, - JP

Daniel G Roberts wrote:

> one problem that I have run into is that my redhat refuses to mount my
> win2k/ntfs partition as read/write..even by hand I can only mount it read/only
> eventhough I specified at the cmd line  I wanted the partition mounted as  rw.
> have any clues?
> Dan
>
> "mike.h" wrote:
>
>
> > I have a dual boot, Win 2K and Redhat 8, machine. I installed RedHat first,
> > partitioning the disk in the process. Basically, I split a large disk in 2
> > and put all ext 3 and swap partitions on the "upper" half. The "lower" half
> > I left unformatted. Then I installed Win 2K and formatted its partitions as
> > ntfs. I put Grub in the boot sector. Works fine.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
> > [mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of Donald Shierk
> > Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 8:35 AM
> > To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> > Subject: [PLUG] Question about dual booting install.
> >
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I am trying to do a dual install with Win 2000 Pro, and RedHat 8. Would
> > anyone
> > mind giving me any pointers or tips regarding the process to do this? When I
> > try installing Windows first, it seems there is no option to partition the
> > hard drive for the later Linux install. A friend of mine suggested that I
> > might
> > use the RedHat disks first to partition, then reboot, install windows, then
> > go back to complete the RedHat install later. Is this feasible? I can't seem
> > to get the Linux partitions to "take" in this manner, no matter how late I
> > terminate the initial install.
> >
> > Thanks very much for any help.
> >
> > Don
> >
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