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by: trolyy October 17, 2007 11:48 AM PDT

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linux on external hd on ntfs and fat32

by trolyy - 10/17/07 11:48 AM

Okeys,

I am wanting to install ubuntu on my external HDD after my windows attempt failed (but thats a different topic). Will ubuntu install and run on an ntfs file system? Secondly my external drive is partitioned 30 GB (will be Linux, ntfs) and 200GB (has backed up data, ntfs at the moment but going to format it in FAT32 [sub note: isnt the max partition size for FAT32 only a couple of GB so will it work?]). My internal HDD is a mixture of everything and I am maxed out on partitions on that one, so forget about that. I heard of ntfs-3g but it doesnt look straight forward to install.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=217009
Any feed back would be welcome.

Si.


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Sound like you are a linux newbie...

by ahtoi - 10/17/07 7:17 PM

In Reply to: linux on external hd on ntfs and fat32 by trolyy

Do you really want to missaround with things like ntfs-3g? Get some live-cd linux distro and have fun with it. No file systems to worry about.


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yeah im useless on linux

by trolyy - 10/18/07 12:40 PM

In Reply to: Sound like you are a linux newbie... by ahtoi

only because iv just turned 17, and iv done everything on windows, im fairly advanced in windows and im not afraid to mess around with my xp, but iv just never used linux and it seemed like a good idea, since its free. so i have now put ubuntu on, and if i dont like that distro then i also have mandrake ready on a CD to try as well, if needed.

maybe once i get use to linux i will have the confidence to do things happy

Si.


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Another Linux Noob

by crazeebob2000 - 10/19/07 8:25 PM

In Reply to: yeah im useless on linux by trolyy

I've had Ubuntu 7.04 and PCLinuxOS 2007 on a dual boot system with Windows XP. So far I like the PCLOS much better. I guess it all comes down to personal preference.


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Sorry if this is too technical.

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 10/20/07 7:35 AM

In Reply to: linux on external hd on ntfs and fat32 by trolyy

For any OS to boot and run, the boot drive file system must be supported in it's core code. NTFS is added later after the OS has booted. I'm sure someone, somewhere has created a kernel with such in the base OS but it's not in the version we'll use today.

Hope this helps,

Bob


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