Re: [opensuse] Installing openSUSE from Windows - new discussion
- From: G T Smith <grahamsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 09:13:10 +0100
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Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Saturday 16 June 2007 14:49, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
Hi Ken Schneider
read:
The primary advantage to this technology is no need to repartition a
hard drive at all. A very welcome feature to win-noobs alike.
The partition structure is independent of the type of file system
created on those partitions. I.e., it is not necessary to repartition a
drive (that's already partitioned) in order to install Linux.
Now, if what you want is to have both Linux and Windows installed on a
given partition, that's another thing. As far as I know, there's no
overlap between the directories used by Linux and those used by
Windows, so if Linux could operate with a root file system that is
NTFS, then this should be feasible. As far as my limited understanding
goes, NTFS is sufficient to support a root file system, but I can't say
for sure whether that is true. Clearly, the kernel would need to
incorporate the NTFS-3G driver so the kernel and the running system
could write to its NTFS root volume.
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-Alexey Eremenko "Technologov"
Randall Schulz
The concept of having a Linux on the same File System as Windows is not
new (it used to be an option with some distros). However where you start
hitting issues is with fundamental incompatibilities in how the two OSs
describe files and some basic file formats. For instance in Open Office
and Eclipse one needs two distinct environments to work on documents or
projects and NTFS has a very different security mechanism to Linux, I
think in attempting to create simplicity one well may be in fact
creating much unneeded complexity.
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