Recently, I've been attempting to "make my mark", and produce a website.

Now, having researched lot's, I started, using KDE/Quanta. I like it. Though, for reason's I don't quite follow, I couldn't accomplish what I wanted to do, how I want to do it.

So after getting thoroughly confused (information overload?), I started to read some more general stuff in web development places.

Now, according to lot's of view's, I found myself hearing over and over again, that Dreamweaver/Studio MX is "the choice of the professional web developer".

So, with that in mind, I got a copy of Studio MX 2004 to evaluate (I don't mind paying the dosh, but I don't particulaly want to waste in excess of £200 - and that's only a student/teacher licence - if it's not gonna do, what I want it too!).

Now, having already done a fair bit of meddling with the quanta option, some of the "bits 'n bobs" are in my /home directory.

If dreamweaver/studio mx ran under linux this wouldn't be an issue, but as it's the other way round I'd like to be able to use some of the "bits 'n bobs" within dreamweaver.

So, does anyone know of idiot level, straight forward of being able to view my linux partitions from a window XP home install, that's formatted as NTFS ?

regards

John

p.s. And yes, the studio mx/dreamweaver option really does seem to have some amazing advanced feature's - but it's a bit arse just trying to get started - shit load's more reading just to get something basic up and running !

p.p.s. Oh and except my /swap, all my linux partitions are formatted as ReiserFS, I don't know if that'd make any difference or not ?

If your Linux partitions had been ext2 (or 3) you could have installed the Ext2Fsd driver in Windows to mount Linux partitions in Windows.
http://www.tuningsoft.com/projects/projects.htm#ext2fsd
Don't know about Reiser, though. What about burning a CD?

Martin

I hadn't thought about that, though some of the stuff I'd like to use is actual files and some of it is links/locations of other stuff that I need to find out about.

So I'd think that the CD option is out. I suppose that worst case scenario would be copying everything to an email, attaching it and sending it to myself, but that's not really very practical and it would be infinitely easier if i could just view my linux partitions.

Thanks for the reply though MartinN.

Any other idea's please anyone ?

regards

John

http://yareg.akucom.de/

although I haven't tested it, and it does require the .net framework ...

This is not likely much help to you now, but may help you in the future.
I have used a fat32 partition to share between linux and windows 2000 when I only had one machine and a dual-boot situation.

The best way though is to have a second linux box running as a samba/NFS file server. This way, regardless of which OS you boot from the dual-boot desktop - linux or windows - you have seemless sharing of the same partitions. In fact, Documents in my slackware /home/<me> directory and My Documents in my win2000 system point to the same folder.

Like I said, it don't help you now, but it may later. If you have a means to safely repartition your box like partition magic the fat32 partition option "could" be quick and painless.

Of course - backup, backup, backup.

HTH

Thanks for the replies.

In trying to assess the best option, the one that ceedeedoos has linked (the yareg option) looks good, though I've not actually heard of it before, but the principles of what the yareg site say's seem excellent.

The "fat32" option, now I have heard of that one, so I'll ask a few further questions. Yes I have both enough space, and a copy of partition magic 8.

With that in mind then, say I partition up a couple of gig's for a fat 32 partition, format it as fat32. What then? I presume that if I then do or produce anything that I want to have access to from the XP install is just saved to the fat 32 partition ? and in theory I should then have access to the stuff in the fat 32 partition from windows ?

Is that correct ?

regards

John

Yup!

If you are in linux and create a file and save it to the fat32 partition, then when you boot in XP you will have access to it. Read/editing that file will of course depend on having the app to deal with that particular file format. This also eliminates the ro issue that linux has/had regarding the NT file system in that you'll be writing to vfat and not ntfs.

Just be carefull about tracking possible changes to your partition numbers as it may make your lilo/grub/fstab settings no longer work without corrections.

For example, if XP is on the first primary partition /dev/hda1, and linux partitions are in an extended partition /dev/hda2, starting with logical partitions /dev/hda5, /dev/hda6, /dev/hda7 as SWAP, / , and /home respectively, then creating a second primary partion from the XP partition will make the fat32 /dev/hda2 and the extended partition /dev/hda3, BUT the linux partition numbers will still start at /dev/hda5 (I believe) and no chages to lilo/grub/fstab are needed.

However, if all partitions are primary, then there WILL be a change in number to any partition that follows the new fat32 partition. This may also be true if the new partition is added within the extended partition and is not the last partition in that area of the disk.

So long as you have a boot disk or live cd you will be able to specify which partition is now root and change settings later.

I hope I was clear. If not, you'll have to wait for any clarification since I appear to have used up today's quota of using the word "partition"

the only problem i see is the partition labels might change depending on where you create your fat32 partition. if you create it anywhere before your linux install's partition, you run the risk of not being able to boot linux until you make corrections in your /etc/fstab file. safe way to do it is to make your new global fat32 partition at the end of the hard drive, after all the other used partitions.

have you tried dreamweaver in Crossover office?

floppy here Bigjohn

Yes there is a programme
that lets you view Linux Partitions from
Win 98 ( fat 32 )
I tried it last year and it worked a treat
except that it could be dangerous if you accidentally deleted something critical
in your linux partition

I'm going through all my CDs to see if I can find it, could take a while
will keep in touch

live long and prosper
floppywhopper