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On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 2009-03-25, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I have a latptop that's set up to dual boot Gentoo and XP. In |
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> the past I booted into XP to run one or two apps (mostly H&R |
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> Block Tax Cut). The NTFS partition is rather small, and |
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> every time I want to do something under windows, I end up having |
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> to futz around trying to free up disk space. |
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No!! Too hard! |
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I'm set up the same way on one of my machine but I installed the |
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Windows ext3 driver. Now my Windows programs can access or even be |
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installed on a Linux partition. I created a directory on the ext3 |
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drive where I installed the Windows programs and don't have to mess |
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with these disk space issues anymore. Granted, I wouldn't really trust |
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this driver on a ext3 partition I *really* cared about so I'm careful |
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about where I allow it to write, but it does work me and hasn't caused |
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any problems that I know of in the 2 years I've used it. |
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http://www.fs-driver.org/ |
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I like the vmware solution better though as I can use Windows from |
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within Gentoo. It's fun to see a complete Windows desktop in a window, |
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but it has it's problems also. Overall it's probably the primary way |
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I'll be going in the future though. |
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Hope this helps, at least with ideas. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |