Re: WindowsME & Linux coexistence

From: Arnt Karlsen (arnt@c2i.net)
Date: 06/18/02 

From: Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 05:29:28 GMT

.on Mon, 17 Jun 2002 05:07:24 +0200, "Jared Spencer"
<jax331jax@hotmail.com> wrote in message
<d9f501c215ac$1a9e5ee0$2ae2c90a@hosting.microsoft.com>:

> I'm running Windows ME on an oldish laptop (Windows XP is not
> supported). Recently I installed Linux on a partition and can dual boot
> into Windows or Linux. Which brings me to two questions:
>
> 1. Is it possible to access data on the Ext2 (Native Linux) partition
> from Windows?

..yes. I advice _strongly_against_writing_ to a ext2 from Wintendo.
Once you have learned to know linux, you'll find safe SW to read
ext*-fs'es from Wintendo, and as you learn enough on how to do it,
safely, you can also write to ext2 et al, just RTFM. ;-)

> 2. Linux seems to provide a rather robust security model (root/user
> separation etc). Is it possible to incapacitate users under Windows from
> altering system folders?

..yes, is done by default. Simply have root carry on denying all
such stupid moves to newbies. If your're a newbie root, log out
and stay out of trouble, work as a standard user and RTFM. BTDT.

..booting wintendo, gives you 'root's or Bill Gates Wrath' without
root's tools to fix your blunders, it is possible to trash both linux
boot records from wintendo, and vice versa, but under linux, you have to
be root to do it, and, you are asked if you really mean to do it, and
your decicions, as root, wise or not, _are_ obeyed, so _read_ those
screen messages.

..if in doubt about expensive data (your decition whatever that is),
come over to news:comp.os.linux.setup or col.misc or somesuch and ask
for help with a "Subject: Red Hat-7.3 Newbie trying to get data out my
Wintendo disk" or some such informative, answer questions on "what the
logs etc says, anonymize routable ip #'s /names/ as needed, and by all
means, feel free to compare with _any_other_ support out there. ;-)
  

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.

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