Re: suggestions for inter-OS file sharing?
On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 12:28:27AM -0800, aphro wrote:
> fat32 readonly support for NT is free i believe..and readonly support for
> NTFS in win9x is free too i think(but unstable)
Read only is not really acceptable. I survive with read-only NTFS
on linux, but all my other file systems are read-write.
> what i used to do was have 1 partition that was fat16 that was used mainly
> for transferring stuff between incompadible OSs. there is 1 or 2
That's a possibility, but I don't like it much either.
> read/write utils for win9x for EXT2 but they are experimental, and i would
> stick to the read only stuff. i think for NT at least you may be better
> off deleting it and installing it in a VMware virtual machine, win9x on
> the other hand is more for games..and if your much of a gamer it may be
> harder to get rid of. but of coruse vmware isnt free..its well worth it
> though it runs fast and is stable and easy to use.
Fast would not have been the adjective I'd use for VMWARE. It took over
80 minutes to install Windows 98 from CD-ROM in a virtual machine.
Hardly speedy when it could be installed in under 30 natively.
I'll just have to convince myself I don't need NT.
Using a separate server is a possibility, but some of the stuff I am
doing is video-related and I don't think disk access will be fast enough.
Hamish
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