Re: Need to escape from Windows

From: wd10 (nospam_at_nospam.invalid)
Date: 09/22/05 

Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 03:10:33 -0400

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 22:02:29 -0400, Stan Brown wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:58:43 -0400 in alt.linux, WD10 favored us
> with...
>> I use a dual-boot Linux/Windows laptop. I'm trying to get farther away
>> from Windows but all my information is stored on Windows at the moment.
>> Is there any way for me to store my calendar, tasks, etc. remotely so that
>> I can access my information no matter what operating system I am using?
>> (Synchronize my computer with a remote server.) I would rather not use
>> Outlook at all because it has a lot of bugs and is always crashing. I
>> don't know what to replace it with though.
>
> You can mount a Windows volume under Linux, definitely if the
> Windows volume is FAT32 and possibly if it's NTFS. (Apologies if
> that's too basic -- it's hard to know what people already know.)
>
> The distros that I've seen come with calendar applications; I'd
> imagine one or more of them are compatible with the file format
> you're currently using. If not, perhaps you can export data from
> your current program.
>
> (It would be easier to advise you if we knew which Linus and which
> calendar program you're running.)

I was using Outlook. I have Evolution and Kontact in Linux (Ubuntu). But
what I am trying to do is free myself from any operating system so that I
can access all my info no matter which OS I am in -- or even if I am on
another computer.

Or are you saying I can mount my NTFS partition while I am in my Linux
partition? That would be very handy. I know that I can do it with live
CDs like Knoppix and SLAX but have never done it from one partition to the
other. Is it difficult?

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