can win xp see knoppix disks?

03-31-2005	#1 (permalink)
caminoix Just Joined! Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: cracow, poland Posts: 76	can win xp see knoppix disks? this is very important for me: i'm about to buy a new hd and i want to install knoppix on it, but if i do so, will i be able to read it when in windows (xp sp2 is what i have)?

03-31-2005	#2 (permalink)
Flatline Linux Guru Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,204	If you make your partition an ext3 partition, you could use Explore2fs to read the files on it: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm __________________ There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. - Jeremy S. Anderson

03-31-2005	#3 (permalink)
caminoix Just Joined! Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: cracow, poland Posts: 76	i imagine i will be prompted how i want to format the disk? and i just choose "ext3"? do i have to format the disk with windows before installing knoppix?

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caminoix Just Joined! Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: cracow, poland Posts: 76	i imagine i will be prompted how i want to format the disk? and i just choose "ext3"? do i have to format the disk with windows before installing knoppix?

03-31-2005	#5 (permalink)
Flatline Linux Guru Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,204	You don't have to format with Windows. It should prompt you during the install for which file system you want to use. __________________ There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. - Jeremy S. Anderson

03-31-2005	#6 (permalink)
caminoix Just Joined! Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: cracow, poland Posts: 76	i imagine i will be prompted how i want to format the disk? and i just choose "ext3"? do i have to format the disk with windows before installing knoppix?

04-01-2005	#7 (permalink)
echan Just Joined! Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 16	Knoppix is based off of Debian. There is really no reason to install Knoppix on a hard drive because it's meant to be a live OS. Is there a particular reason why you want to install Knoppix? Enoch

04-01-2005	#8 (permalink)
valan Linux Engineer Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ft. Polk, LA Posts: 794	Do not trust Windows to access a Linux partition. Set up a seperate fat32 partition for using between the two.

04-01-2005

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Quote:

Originally Posted by echan

Is there a particular reason why you want to install Knoppix?

the reason is that i decided i'd like to start using linux, but being a complete newbie, i could only chose by what others say and by what i can see myself on the live cd. i liked knoppix and kanotix most and thought what i should do now, would be to install them to hd.

could you recommed me a better solution, please?

Quote:

Originally Posted by valan

Do not trust Windows to access a Linux partition. Set up a seperate fat32 partition for using between the two.

a partition different from that that i'm going to use linux on, right? what program can i use to do something like that? thank you for this idea, it looks very useful

04-01-2005	#10 (permalink)
echan Just Joined! Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 16	I recommend starting with Fedora Core although some prefer others. It's easy to use and you can get more support if you have a problem using it. Enoch

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