[vox-tech] a few pre-install questions

[Jonathan Stickel]

Rod already answered as I would:  make windows the first partition, 
consider Gentoo, and NTFS is iffy with rw.  But I'll add: NTFS is fine 
for windows since you plan another fat32 data partition for sharing. 
That has worked well for me.

Jonathan


dylan wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I am in the process of setting up a new machine for the lab- and am trying
> to make the dual boot process as smooth as possible.
> 
> 1. the machine currently has a single SATA hard disk that i would like to
> use for both winXP (yuck!) and linux.
> 
> my initial plan for the drive would look something like this
> partition #   usage
> 1             /boot  (ext2 format?)
> 2             /swap
> 3             windows_system (ntfs format)
> 4             my_windows_data (fat32 format ?) [needs to be rw in both OS's]
> 5             my_linux_data (ReiserFS format ?)
> 6             linux_system_stuff (ReiserFS format ?)
> 
> as i am mostly a linuxPPC type I do not have much experience with the
> limitations and or quirks of BIOS limits on partition size and layout.
> 
> I have been traditionally using Debian stable for my linux needs, but since
> I have been running into problems with bleeding edge hardware and software,
> I was thinking about switching to SUSE 9.1 for this machine. (i won't give
> up on Debian for older machines!) Anyone else on the list using SUSE 9.1 ? I
> have installed it on 2 machines so far and it seems pretty nice so far.
> 
> any ideas on how to best set this up? Also is there a good format that both
> linux and windows can use RW? all i could think of was fat32... how mature
> is RW support for NTFF?
> 
> 
> thanks in advance!!
> 
> Dylan
> 
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