[linux-help] Re: Hi! Would like some installtion help...

[Anne McCadden <ironrose@xxxxxxx>]

You are right -- the default file system for XP home & XP pro is NTFS. 
 The only way to get it to install on a Fat32 file system is to use a 
bootdisk and format for fat32, then install XP.  Fat32 XP will run some 
of the older pgms, whereas NTFS XP won't and requires consumers to buy 
the newer pgms.  It works great with their marketing strategy, buy the 
latest and greatest M$ OS for $200+, that can be installed only one one 
machine, and then go out and buy all new pgms to run on it.  XP Office 
is ~$650 retail.  What a deal?!?

I opted to buy better hardware, ie faster AMD chip (1800+), more RAM 
(512M), and a better video card (nVidia 32mb DDR), bigger hdd (60gb) and 
run RedHat 7.3.  RedHat setup the drivers better and easier than what XP 
does.  I'm a very happy camper.  It even runs Quake 3 better than M$ 
does.  Jeff Shouse installed and tested it for me.  ~Anne

gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) wrote:

>On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, postmaster wrote:
>
>>I don't recall what the drive format is for WinXP... is that FAT or =
>>NTFS?
>>
>
>i *think* it defaults to NTFS if you are installing from scratch (no
>partitions/filesystems created) and defaults to whatever the pre-existing
>filesystem is (FAT or NTFS) if you are upgrading or installing on a box w/
>partitions/filesystems already created...
>
>>The current developer is also looking into getting it to work on NTFS, =
>>but that's still a ways off.
>>
>
>ooo, that'd be kinda kewl, but i'd prefer being able to read/write NTFS
>5.1 from linux first...  i'm not the biggest fan of FAT32, but i have to
>have a partition that both linux/win can read/write to for my mp3/divx
>partition! ; ^ )
>
>gLaNDix
>
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