Re: New install, Vista and partitions
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:29 pm
Are you saying that you will be re-installing Vista from scratch?
The easiest thing to do, from personal experience, is to install Windows onto a partition that you create from within the Windows installer. Leave the rest of the disk completely unallocated. When installing Linux, create whatever Linux needs, and then create another partition of type FAT32; mount it from Linux as /share or something. when you boot back into Windows, this will automatically show up as the D: drive. This is where you can share files completely safely between the two.
You will not be able to place your Linux /home on this partition, because FAT does not support user-file access flags.
HTH.
The easiest thing to do, from personal experience, is to install Windows onto a partition that you create from within the Windows installer. Leave the rest of the disk completely unallocated. When installing Linux, create whatever Linux needs, and then create another partition of type FAT32; mount it from Linux as /share or something. when you boot back into Windows, this will automatically show up as the D: drive. This is where you can share files completely safely between the two.
You will not be able to place your Linux /home on this partition, because FAT does not support user-file access flags.
HTH.