Re: Windows XP + Linux

["Ilia Lobsanov" <ilia@lobsanov.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hubert Chan" <hackerhue@geek.com>
To: <debian-laptop@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: Windows XP + Linux


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> FWIW, I have Linux, and XP on the same drive on my laptop (IBM
> ThinkPad).  I didn't encounter any problems, except that XP got
> installed on an NTFS partition, so I had to get PartitionMagic to shrink
> it.  Linux seems to read NTFS partitions fine, except that it's only
> root-readable, even if I mount as a normal user. 

you can fix that by mounting with option "umask=002"

ilia.