Re: dual boot system sharing data - suggestions please

developer_at_wexwarez.com
Date: 03/31/04

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    Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 19:46:49 -0800 (PST)
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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
    >

    well this is for a laptop though and if i am on the move I may not have
    access to networking and I don't want to have to deal with writing cdroms
    or that kind of thing.

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