RE: tlug: How to install Linux (Part 1) ...

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Olinsky, Craig wrote:

> 
> > Why do people recommend all these partitions? I've found when I partition
> > up a disk I normally regret it beause I run out of space on one of them.
> > 
> 	I've had that problem all the time. :(
> 
> > When I installed recently I gave 100Mb for swap, 60Mb for an msdos
> > partition (so I can move files between NT and Linux on this machine), and
> > the rest (300Mb or so) for everything else. (the rest of the disk is an
> > NTFS partition, that Linux can't see - though I noticed kernel 2.2 will be
> > able to).
> > 
> 	As Scott mentioned elsewhere, there's a read-only NTFS driver for
> Linux that has worked well for me...

FYI, this will be standard in the 2.2.0 kernel, from what I've heard.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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