Linux has no problem reading and wrighting a windows partition, it get's mounted lust like a cd-rom. I have Mandrake 8.0 installed and it automaticaly detects windows partitions and mounts them for you. It even puts an icon on your desktop with the name of the partition in it. Matthew LaBerge labmat at mn.mediaone.net On 12 Aug 2001 08:16:30 -0500, Terry Houle wrote: > I am looking to get a notebook and put Windows and Linux on it. I would > partition the drive and wondering if I could put my data files for Windows > and Linux is the shared partion.? Or do I have to create a seperate > partition for each of the data files? I think I know the answer but wanted > to confirm. > > TIA > > Terry Houle > houle at citilink.com > http://www.citilink.com/~houle > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list