Dual Boot WinXP (NTFS) and Knoppix

**Doc** · 06-26-2003, 01:55 AM

Thanks Stephen for that info...

Regards Doc.

**Doc** · 06-26-2003, 02:03 AM

BUGGER ME!!!

Did what you said and it took, like, 1 second to do it!!!

Man, I'm impressed!

Thanx again, Doc.

**aay** · 06-26-2003, 02:37 AM

Switching over to ext3 means you'll also need to update /etc/fstab to reflect the change.

**babs** · 06-26-2003, 03:51 AM

Originally Posted by jmboris

hello,

i have win xp, windows 2003 server an knoppix in the same hard disk..
the windows parttion is NTFS and ther is no problem, ...

when you turn on the pc it ask you what system you want to run (linux, hda1, hda2)....

This is something I want to do. I have Windows xp sp1 home editon, and assumed that if it was ntfs instead of fat32 it wouldn't work. Could you please give me step by step instructions, or if not, point me in the right direction for help.
Thanks.

**xolstis** · 06-26-2003, 09:29 AM

a bit of a problem along the same lines here. I just installed knoppix today....whopeee.... anyway I can see neither my NTFS or FAT32 partition. I have one HDD partitioned into 4 parts.... NTFS, FAT32, ext3, linux swap. I would like to use the FAT32 partit to store stuff like pictures and mp3s so I can access it (read/write) by both my OSes. Can someone tell me how do i get knoppix to see my other two HDDs? I am running win XP on the NTFS btw.

Thanks

**babs** · 06-26-2003, 04:20 PM

Just did a little more research and came across this article. Maybe I am misunderstanding, but by looking at this, one can use the utility QTparted(already on the Knoppix cd) you can leave your file system NTFS.
http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html
Anyone with a little more knowledge than me would care to take a look at it please and see what you get out of it.

**Irgu** · 06-26-2003, 11:37 PM

I prefer using QTParted versus Mandrake's DiskDruid to resize NTFS partitions. Mandrake is too agressive and does a destructive resize if non-destructive isn't possible when for example the ntfs is corrupted, has bad sectors, etc. Never had this problem with QTParted. So for me it worked perfectly so far.

**babs** · 06-27-2003, 04:44 AM

From what I have read so far, you can install on NTFS partition, but writing to it is risky. Do I have it right?

**aay** · 06-27-2003, 06:17 AM

Well you can use QTParted to resize your NTFS partition, but you will need to install Knoppix onto a ext2, ext3, reiserfs, or xfs partition. BTW, please back up your data on your NTFS partition before you do this just in case something goes wrong.

**Irgu** · 06-27-2003, 09:37 AM

Read the NTFS write status on the above ntfsresize page: the old ntfs driver was only for NT4 and it's risky but write is disabled for W2K and XP. The new NTFS driver has less write functionality but it's OK. You can also install Linux to NTFS using
TopologiLinux. Unfortunately this is not possible with Knoppix