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bdl · 09-08-2003, 05:36 PM

In answer to your first question-
You might check and see if the other partitions (which I take are Windows / NTFS / FAT32 partitions) are already mounted. Some distros like Redhat or Mandrake, take the liberty of recognizing and mounting Windows partitions. If not, then its just a matter of recognizing what filesystem is on them, loading the necessary kernel module (or at least checking to see if it's loaded) then mounting the filesystem.

First off, what type of filesystem are we talking about?

In answer to the second -
Regarding running windows applications under linux, there is limited support. Wine / WineX etc can run certain applications, but something like photoshop I would think would be out of the question. Too big, too many dependancies for the emulators to handle. IMHO, if you want to run Win apps, dual-boot. OTHO, linux has alot of great software (most of which is probably already pre-installed under RH 8) to do most of the things you would want to do under Win.

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bdl Senior Contributor Join Date: May 2002 Location: vta.ca.usa Posts: 555	In answer to your first question- You might check and see if the other partitions (which I take are Windows / NTFS / FAT32 partitions) are already mounted. Some distros like Redhat or Mandrake, take the liberty of recognizing and mounting Windows partitions. If not, then its just a matter of recognizing what filesystem is on them, loading the necessary kernel module (or at least checking to see if it's loaded) then mounting the filesystem. First off, what type of filesystem are we talking about? In answer to the second - Regarding running windows applications under linux, there is limited support. Wine / WineX etc can run certain applications, but something like photoshop I would think would be out of the question. Too big, too many dependancies for the emulators to handle. IMHO, if you want to run Win apps, dual-boot. OTHO, linux has alot of great software (most of which is probably already pre-installed under RH 8) to do most of the things you would want to do under Win.