Re: Triple boot with MS XP

2010-06-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 15 iun 10, 21:13:11, ABSDoug wrote: > If this isn't on topic, sorry ahead of time & perhaps you can point me in the > right place? > > I've been reading up on having a separate partition for your /home > files. For quite some time, I've been using a ntfs partition named > "storage" as it

Re: Symlinks (was Re: Triple boot with MS XP)

2010-06-18 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/16/2010 10:03 PM, ABSDoug wrote: >> >> --- On Wed, 6/16/10, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>  > Symlink the NTFS iTunes directory to some place under >>  > $HOME. >> >> I've never heard this term "Symlink". I'm off to Google, but if you care >>

Re: Triple boot with MS XP

2010-06-16 Thread Huang, Tao
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:03 AM, ABSDoug wrote: > I've never heard this term "Symlink". I'm off to Google, but if you care to > elaborate, please feel free! > i didn't notice that you are not familiar with the symbolic link solution. actually, it's the simplest way. i should have mentioned it i

Symlinks (was Re: Triple boot with MS XP)

2010-06-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/16/2010 10:03 PM, ABSDoug wrote: --- On Wed, 6/16/10, Ron Johnson wrote: > Symlink the NTFS iTunes directory to some place under > $HOME. I've never heard this term "Symlink". I'm off to Google, but if you care to elaborate, please feel free! (That's the way for a newbie to engender

Re: Triple boot with MS XP

2010-06-16 Thread ABSDoug
--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Ron Johnson wrote: > Gmail doesn't seem to suffer the non-wrapping problem. I'll go subscribe right now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Triple boot with MS XP

2010-06-16 Thread ABSDoug
--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Ron Johnson wrote: > Symlink the NTFS iTunes directory to some place under > $HOME. I've never heard this term "Symlink". I'm off to Google, but if you care to elaborate, please feel free!

Re: Triple boot with MS XP

2010-06-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/16/2010 07:16 PM, ABSDoug wrote: [snip] He's right& it was on my to do list. I just went over to settings, I couldn't find anything to fix it. SO annoying. I looked at GMail, didn't see setting for this either. I like doing E-mail off the web, but that might have to change. Gmail doe

Re: Triple boot with MS XP

2010-06-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/16/2010 07:10 PM, ABSDoug wrote: --- On Wed, 6/16/10, Huang, Tao wrote: [snip] The main reason I'd like access for XP is iTunes for my iPhone. Seems silly to have 16GB of information repeated for XP& Linux /home. Symlink the NTFS iTunes directory to some place under $HOME. -- Seek

Re: Triple boot with MS XP

2010-06-16 Thread ABSDoug
--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Ron Johnson wrote: > No sane person would.  If you *do* treat "storage" as > /home, then > You're Doing It Wrong. The main reason I'd do this is access for XP, iTunes for my iPhone. Seems silly to have 16GB of information repeated for an XP & Linux /home. So right now my

Re: Triple boot with MS XP

2010-06-16 Thread ABSDoug
--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Huang, Tao wrote: <<< why do you need to access the /home partition when using winxp? ntfs doesn't support POXIS file ownership and permissions natively. so keep you /home partition to a linux filesystem. you can have a separate storage partition for shared documents and f

Re: Triple boot with MS XP

2010-06-16 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 09:13:11PM -0700, ABSDoug wrote: > If this isn't on topic, sorry ahead of time & perhaps you can point me in the > right place? > > I've been reading up on having a separate partition for your /home files. For > quite some time, I've been using a ntfs partition named "sto

Re: Triple boot with MS XP

2010-06-16 Thread Huang, Tao
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:34 PM, ABSDoug wrote: > Cheesy that I wouldn't just write straight to the partition with /home files, > from XP. The way I have it setup now, info is stored on a ntfs named > "storage", any OS can read/write. That said, I don't really use XP that much > anyway. > why

Re: Triple boot with MS XP

2010-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/16/2010 01:34 AM, ABSDoug wrote: --- On Wed, 6/16/10, Ron Johnson wrote: To do what, exactly? Access files or triple boot? Sorry, I'm triple booting now, I'm planning on changing /home file to their own partition. Triple booting and creating a /home partition are orthog

Re: Triple boot with MS XP

2010-06-15 Thread ABSDoug
--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Ron Johnson wrote: > To do what, exactly?  Access files or triple boot? Sorry, I'm triple booting now, I'm planning on changing /home file to their own partition. > What's so cheesy about it? Cheesy that I wouldn't just write straight to the

Re: Triple boot with MS XP

2010-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
the net, > I couldn't decide the best way. To do what, exactly? Access files or triple boot? I could use Linux to pull files > off of the MS XP ntfs partition easy enough, but it seems cheesy. What's so cheesy about it? > All the options t

Triple boot with MS XP

2010-06-15 Thread ABSDoug
If this isn't on topic, sorry ahead of time & perhaps you can point me in the right place? I've been reading up on having a separate partition for your /home files. For quite some time, I've been using a ntfs partition named "storage" as it makes re-install or fresh install of OS much easier. W

Re: weird but working triple boot with lilo on Woody

2002-09-07 Thread Q. Gong
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Hi, > > i have Debian Woody 3.0 running along Windows 98 en XP. > I had installed Win98 first, then woody. Now i installed XP and XP > detected Win98, made a menu to boot XP and Win98 and then overwrote > the MBR which was expected. > No problem sinc

Re: weird but working triple boot with lilo on Woody

2002-09-06 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Benedict Verheyen wrote: > ... > > I put these lines in my lilo.conf > other=/dev/hda1 > label="Win98" > other=/dev/hdb1 > label="WinXp" > > I expected to be able to boot both win os's but it didn't work. When i chose > WinXp it said that that partition wasn't bootable. When i choose Win98, > a

weird but working triple boot with lilo on Woody

2002-09-06 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi,   i have Debian Woody 3.0 running along Windows 98 en XP. I had installed Win98 first, then woody. Now i installed XP and XP detected Win98, made a menu to boot XP and Win98 and then overwrote the MBR which was expected. No problem since i had made a boot disk in woody so i went back in

Re: Triple Boot

2001-05-10 Thread shadow
"Skinner, Reed" wrote: > > Does anyone have any experience with a Debian/Win2k/Solaris setup on the > same system? > > I just bought a new drive for my system at home and would like to add > Solaris 8 to my existing setup of Debian/Win2k. My concern is that during > the Solaris install I will hos

Re: Triple Boot

2001-05-10 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 12:16:46PM -0400, Skinner, Reed wrote: > Does anyone have any experience with a Debian/Win2k/Solaris setup on the > same system? I had WinNT/Solaris 2.6/Debian at one time. I used the WinNT boot loader though. When you install Solaris, you should choose to install the boot

Triple Boot

2001-05-10 Thread Skinner, Reed
Does anyone have any experience with a Debian/Win2k/Solaris setup on the same system? I just bought a new drive for my system at home and would like to add Solaris 8 to my existing setup of Debian/Win2k. My concern is that during the Solaris install I will hose lilo. Obviously I could backup lilo,