hello all. I have a dual boot laptop running XP and RH3. I tried to install wine but because my XP is on NTFS I could not link to that partition. So, I have burned all my personal files to CD and am wondering what to do next: 1) I suppose I could install another windows operating system like 98. Drawback is that when I do use Windows, XP tends to handle the plug and play features better (like for my camera). I uderstand that wine handles Win98 system better than XP. Recommendations? 2) Installing Windows will blow away GRUB. I messed around with this once and had to reinstall RH in its entirety inorder to reinstall GRUb...any advice appreciated. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com
Tom, Thanks for your suggestion. The directory you specified did not exist. I searched for other linux directories and other directories that had xconfig files in them. I found one xconfig file and did a search within the file but nothing with "ntfs" showed up. I tried make xconfig and make menuconfig and neither worked. I got an error: No rule to make target 'xconfig'. Stop. Any ideas? Paul --- Tom Williams <tomdkat@attbi.com> wrote:> Ambassador Incursio wrote: > > > hello all. > > > > I have a dual boot laptop running XP and RH3. I > tried > > to install wine but because my XP is on NTFS I > could > > not link to that partition. > > > > So, I have burned all my personal files to CD and > am > > wondering what to do next: > > > > 1) I suppose I could install another windows > operating > > system like 98. Drawback is that when I do use > > Windows, XP tends to handle the plug and play > features > > better (like for my camera). I uderstand that > wine > > handles Win98 system better than XP. > Recommendations? > > > > 2) Installing Windows will blow away GRUB. I > messed > > around with this once and had to reinstall RH in > its > > entirety inorder to reinstall GRUb...any advice > > appreciated. > > > > Linux has at least READ-ONLY support for NTFS. The > stock kernel that > comes with RH 7.3 might not have that support > enabled. I would do this: > > 1. Open a command shell > 2. su (to root) > 3. cd /usr/src/linux > 4. make xconfig (or make menuconfig) > 5. locate the filesystems section and see which > filesystems are enabled > in your kernel > > Alternatively, you can see if the NTFS support is > compiled as a module > with this command: find /lib -name "ntfs*" > > If you can get NTFS in your kernel, you can mount > your XP drive(s) into > your Linux filesystem and at least read your data > directly. I have > BOTH of my FAT32 Win98 drives mounted in my Linux > filesystem and play my > Napster MP3s from them directly using XMMS.... :) > > Good luck! > > Peace..... > > Tom >__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com
Ambassador Incursio wrote:> hello all. > > I have a dual boot laptop running XP and RH3. I tried > to install wine but because my XP is on NTFS I could > not link to that partition. > > So, I have burned all my personal files to CD and am > wondering what to do next: > > 1) I suppose I could install another windows operating > system like 98. Drawback is that when I do use > Windows, XP tends to handle the plug and play features > better (like for my camera). I uderstand that wine > handles Win98 system better than XP. Recommendations?Wine is intended to be used without Windows. The main reason for having Windows is for things that are not yet fully implemented in Wine (often this means installers). So I would think the best thing to do would be to not use Windows, and try Wine with the applications you are interested in. If that works, no reason to mess with Windows at all.
Hey guys, Thanks for your help so far. 1) I upgraded to 7.3 (from 7.2), that seems to have affected some things. My kernel does not seem to include NTFS support as best I can tell. 2) I was unable to find any such directory to /usr/src/linux-2.x.x directory after installing the kernel-development packages. Paul --- Tom Williams <tomdkat@attbi.com> wrote:> Ambassador Incursio wrote: > > > Tom, > > > > Thanks for your suggestion. > > > > The directory you specified did not exist. I > searched > > for other linux directories and other directories > that > > had xconfig files in them. > > > > I found one xconfig file and did a search within > the > > file but nothing with "ntfs" showed up. > > > > I tried make xconfig and make menuconfig and > neither > > worked. I got an error: > > > > No rule to make target 'xconfig'. Stop. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Paul > > > > When you installed RH 7.3, did you install the > kernel source? Attached > is a screen shot of what I'm talking about. If you > don't have the > kernel source installed, you won't be able to do > what I propose. > > Peace..... > > Tom >> ATTACHMENT part 2 image/jpeg name=kernelconfig.jpg__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com