Windoes XP and RedHat Linux

From: Stephen Speicher (stephen_at_speicher.com)
Date: 11/28/03 

Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 20:17:20 -0800

I want to use both Windows and Linux on the same machine and be
able to read in each of the OS, files stored in the other. For
instance, I would like to open *.pdf files stored in the Linux
system, from Windows, or read some text files stored in Windows,
in Linux. (Writing from one to the other would also be nice, but
not mandatory.)

I bought a new machine with plenty of main memory and 2 large
disks, and it came installed with Windows XP which uses NTFS. I
also bought RedHat Professional Workstation. I thought it would
be probably be easiest to use one of the disks for Windows, and
the other for Linux. A few questions I have.

1) Can the Linux system read NTFS?

2) How do I enable Windows to access the Linux disk?

3) Both disks came as part of Windows. If I remove the second
disk from Windows, will the Linux installation be able to format
the second disk, or do I need something like Partition Commander
to first format the disk for Linux before installation?

4) Eventually I will install VMware to run both Windows and Linux
together, and I want to make sure I do not do something now that
will present a problem for VMware. Is anyone familiar enough with
VMware to make any suggestions about what to do now?

Thanks, 

-- 
Stephen
stephen@speicher.com
Ignorance is just a placeholder for knowledge.
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