Sharing Files in Linux and Window

[LacVan]

ne^'u mi`nh co' mo^.t computer, partition in 2 drives
1) Window
2) Linux

Sau ddo' mi`nh muo^'n use nhu*~ng mp3 files in Windows when we're in Linux, mi`nh pha?i la`m sao ? Co' bro/sis na`o bie^'t chi? du`m LV he'n .. thanks!!

Another question is how to set up multi-OS
1) Linux
2) Window 2000
3) Window XP ?

[TyP0]

Techincally if u set your partition over cu?a windows with Fat32, then you be able to use over be^n LINUX with going into that partition ...somethin like /hda01 or somethin similar. If it's NTFS then too bad, you can't do that.

[LacVan]

oh .. okie .. thanks!!

[pikachu]

Lacvan

Cau hoi thứ nhì của ba.n Pika biết. Ban. dùng System commander la` xong hết thui. :)


Hoặc la` bạn dùng thứ na`y ne`

Originally posted by pikachu
Naveen Selvadurai

1. Use fdisk to partition your drive properly.
2. Install Windows 2000/XP on the first partition.
3. Start your Linux Installation and install the /root directory into
the second partition. Install LILO into the first sector of your boot
partition (usually /boot) and not in the MBR.
4. Make a boot disk during the Linux installation if possible so that
you can boot into it.
5. Now boot into Linux and copy the boot image from the boot sector. To
do this run: dd if=/dev/hdan of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1, where
/dev/hdan is the location of /boot and /bootsect.lnx is the Linux
boot image. Copy this bootsect.lnx file to a safe location where you
can reach it using Windows.
6. Reboot into Windows 2000/XP and copy this bootsect.lnx file into the
root directory (C:\).
7. Edit c:\boot.ini and append the following line: c:\bootsect.lnx
="Linux".
8. Reboot your system and boot directly from the hard disk.
9. The Windows NT boot loader should now give you the option of booting
into either Windows 2000/XP or Linux. Try booting into both of them
to see if you were successful.



Additional Comments:


Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:30:32 -0600
From: Pat Buick
Subject: Dual Booting Linux and Windows 2000

Naveen,

First off, thanks for the document, it was a pointer in the right
direction.

In my case however, the user had installed NT and clobbered the MBR,
which is where LILO was stored. However on this version of Linux
(RedHat 7.x if I recall correctly), when the system gets ready to make
the boot sector, it creates a file in /boot called boot.xxxx where xxxx
is some number. (In his case, it was 0300 again IIRC.) This file is 512
bytes long to match the boot sector size. I found this because he had
(smart man) created a boot floppy for the system and was able to boot
into the system to find this file.

I copied this file into the bootsect.lnx file as you suggested and
voila, the system booted into Linux.

I just thought you might add a small section to your writeup that if the
actual boot code is *not* installed in /boot, but in the MBR that people
should look for this file as an alternative way to get the boot sector
information.

--
Patrick D. Buick

[jspk]

accessing windows partition from linux

this should be automatically configured in new distros. it's usually under /mnt and name win (/mnt/win)

if windows partition is fat/fat32, reading/writing from linux is possible. if ntfs then read only (writing too but it's at a very early stage and could corrupt your disk)


access linux partition from windows

there are a few free programs to do this; however, most are readonly. i have something like paragon ntfs, do you want it?


finally using partition magic 8.0, you can read/write from both os to each other.

hope this help.