Advice FAT32-NTFS

[rev667]

I am about to build a new PC.

Foxconn mobo (975i chipset) the only one with dual IDE's for my old HDDs
E6300 cpu
1 Gb ram
250 sata drive
7600GT PCI
Windoze XP Pro

I will be dual booting between XP for (Eve-online)
and Gentoo Linux for all other stuff.

The question is, will I be able to format the new drive with the FAT filesystem rather than NTFS, as support for NTFS under linux is a little beta at the moment.

The last PC I built, I used a Win89 floppy and FDISK-Format... easy. Not sure about XP.

Thanks

Rev

[Firerat]

Yeah, FAT32 will bo no problem

It won't perform as well as NTFS, but as you say NTFS in Linux is very hit and miss.

Must admit I have not tried it recently

Read is fine, but you can only write to small files and and I think wou have to maintain teh same file size :shock:

It was a few years ago when I last tried it tho

But tbh why would you need to access it from Linux?

another option is VMware, you can then boot Windows as a guest and access via a network share

[rev667]

Mmm, hope so.
But I suppose the question I'm asking, when installing XP-Pro from the CD, It will give you the opportunity to format your hard drive(s), will it offer FAT as an option, or just NTFS. If NTFS only I'll have to find a floppy somewhere and do the old fdisk, format thing. Or even fire up a knoppix CD and use the tools there to format the disk first before installing windoze, no biggiw but nice to know beforehand.

I need to access the windoze partition in linux because I write PLC software and some embedded stuff, and the tools are a mix of windows and linux, I can't run windoze as a VM under linux as the software I use directly access the hardware and VM messes it up no end.

Oh and Eve won't run on a VM... but cedega might work :)

[David]

The installation gives you the option :)

http://www.randomthing.net/images/install.png

[Firerat]

[quote:146787c92d=\"rev667\"]Mmm, hope so.
But I suppose the question I'm asking, when installing XP-Pro from the CD, It will give you the opportunity to format your hard drive(s), will it offer FAT as an option, or just NTFS. If NTFS only I'll have to find a floppy somewhere and do the old fdisk, format thing. Or even fire up a knoppix CD and use the tools there to format the disk first before installing windoze, no biggiw but nice to know beforehand.

I need to access the windoze partition in linux because I write PLC software and some embedded stuff, and the tools are a mix of windows and linux, I can't run windoze as a VM under linux as the software I use directly access the hardware and VM messes it up no end.

Oh and Eve won't run on a VM... but cedega might work :)[/quote:146787c92d]

ahh I was assuming you were going to have a windows partition and a linux partition and wanted to access documents on the windows while in Linux
Hence VMware ;)
you can then have two Windows Profiles, one for Native, and one for VMware.

Install windows first and create a partition ( do not format the full drive )
Then install Linux, Linux will see the Windows Part and will install a boot option, so when you boot up you choose Windows or Linux.

[rev667]

Well, I built the PC

Formatting the SATA drive now, but NTFS only, it didn't give me a choice :(

Guess I'll have to find a floppy drive and a small HDD to use as a transfer device.

Rev

[landwomble]

...other tools will, but XP has an artificial limit to encourage use of NTFS.