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Are there any distro's like Winlinux or Dragon Linux that install "as a program" that are compatable with NTFS I am making a dual-boot system, but would like to put linux on some other computers without doing a full install with partitioning and the like, because I would be the only one to use the linux, and I'm not on those computers much. I need one that works with NTFS because the computers have Windows XP with the disk as NTFS. Thanks in advance.
Not that I am aware of. Linux can reliably read from an NTFS system but not write to it , that I am aware of.
Winlinux relies on being installed from a win95 based OS. It does this because it reads your registry to try to identify your hardware. NT, 2000 and XP store this information in a different locationion the registry. A New version has been released but I havent tried it yet. I dont know what new tweaks and details they added but installing from NT was one of the slated projects. It is good for a starter/intro to Linux. But works much better from its own partition in a Linux native filesystem.
I havent tried PhatLinux.
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I am making a dual-boot system, but would like to put linux on some other computers without doing a full install with partitioning and the like, because I would be the only one to use the linux, and I'm not on those computers much. I need one that works with NTFS because the computers have Windows XP with the disk as NTFS. Thanks in advance.
