FREE CD LINUX O/S From a Linux User

James Gray james at grayonline.id.au
Wed Mar 8 23:07:00 UTC 2006


On Thursday 09 March 2006 05:49, James Gray wrote:
> On Thursday 09 March 2006 04:25, scott wrote:
> > I also recomend one more; a fat32 partition so you can easily
> > share files between the two OS's.  After that you simply install the
> > Kubuntu system and the Grub will detect the XP and automatically create
> > a link to it when you boot up.
>
> Hi Scott,
>
> Like many, I *used* to use a FAT32 partition to share files between OS'es
> on dual boot machines (MP3 collection etc).  However, I came across a Win32
> driver for EXT2 :)  It installs on Win2k/XP/2k3 and allows you to use EXT2
> partitions as native Windows partitions (like FAT32/NTFS).
>
> The beauty of it is that FAT32 provides no file system security in either
> Windows or Linux (any security is purely emulated), and considering I spend
> most of my time in Linux, by sharing an EXT2 partition I get all the
> native-Linux security when in Linux, and don't loose anything in Windows :)
>
> If anyone gets lost, drop me a line and I'll provide some more concise
> URL's when I'm online again.

Couldn't help myself!
http://www.fs-driver.org/

Knock yourselves out people :)

James
-- 
Reality always seems harsher in the early morning.
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