Re: dual boot system sharing data - suggestions please

From: Kevin Mark (kmark+debian-user_at_pipeline.com)
Date: 03/31/04

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    On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 01:58:47PM -0800, developer@wexwarez.com wrote:
    > I just got me a new laptop the dell inspiron 8600 with a 60gig harddrive.
    > I would like to set up a dual boot system on the one harddrive. The catch
    > is I was thinking it would be nice if my linux system could see my windows
    > documents and likewise. So to start with if I was going with a regular
    > dual boot I would want lilo on a mbr and a ext3 partition and a ntfs
    > partition. Right?
    >
    > Now what is the best way to share data my guess is I would need a fat32
    > partition both can read that right? WOuld the best way to go be to add
    > that in addition to the two other partitions and put shared data on this
    > partition or would it make sense to just put my windows system on fat32?
    >
    > Or is there another option?
    >
    Hi Ryan,
    write data to cdrom,usb thumbdrives, network drives(nfs,samba,ftp)
    -kev 

    


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