Duel boot with NTFS?

[david]

On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 07:47 -0300, Marcelo Confortino wrote:
> Gábor Iglói wrote:
> > with Windows XP: yes
> > on NTFS: no
> > 
> > But you can't either dual boot with a Win2k on the same NTFS partition either...
> > 
> > You need two primary partitions: one for XP and one for Linux. The
> > rest of the HDD will be data space accessible for both OS (and a small
> > partition for swap).
> > 
> Sorry, I must disagree.
> 
> I installed XP with NTFS using half of the disk, so I have 20 MB in a 
> NTFS partition an 20 MB of unused space. Then, I installed Ubuntu in the 
>   unused space. It detected that there was another operating system and 
> configured grup acordingly. Now, when it boots, it gives a choice among 
> ubuntu, a recovery mode, a memory test and XP. Bye. M.
> 

Yes, quite right.
I set up a dual boot system with Windows on NTFS (it didn't offer me
FAT32 as an option) and Linux on an 80Gig drive 2 days ago (and my work
laptop had Win2k on ntfs and Slackware10 dual booting quite happily.)
and the training room I set up at work has 12 Windows XP Pro machines on
NTFS dual booting quite happily with Mandrake.
The only problem with NTFS is writing to it from Linux.

David