Dual Booting
We intend to install most of our Linux clients on a medium-capability desktop machine having two partitions on a 20-GB hard disk. Where will our Linux fit in? There are Linux distributions that install within a FAT32 file system. There is at least one noncommercial distribution that hides each Linux partition in its own FAT32 file. These are useful for learning about Linux from a Windows XP system in a noninvasive manner, but lack performance and security.
We shall use phrases such as “mount a file system” in this text. Linux and UNIX don't use drive letters for partitions. Instead, they lace file systems together in a single-rooted hierarchy. A file system joined to this hierarchy is a mounted file system. Various standard directory ...
Get Linux® and Windows® Interoperability Guide now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
