Re: [edlug] Stallman's talk

[Nick Woolley <nickwoolley@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Keith Brown wrote:

> The problem is that they want to *try* Linux but,
> unless they have a spare machine, preserve their
> existing Windows install. Thus Linux has to play nice
> with Windows, whereas Windows doesn't care about
> playing nice with Linux.

one could always install linux in the windows partition, using the 
umsdos filesystem, which maps linux filenames onto dos filenames.  Thus, 
someone wanting to give it a whirl might not actually need to repartition.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/UMSDOS-HOWTO.html

Although, I should add, I've never actually tried it and I'm not sure if 
recent Linux distros offer it as a standard option.

N
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