a few questions

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You'll neva walk alone!

hi, just wanted to know the following thing:
i have 2 OS installed on my PC one win XP and another Linux (Mandrake
10.1) i wanna know when in linux i can see drives of xp like C, D etc
but when in XP i cannot see the linux drive. can anyone tell me why
this happens?

also i have a onboard gpu, how can i know how much memory is that
graphic card consuming from ym ram?
 
You'll neva walk alone! said:
hi, just wanted to know the following thing:
i have 2 OS installed on my PC one win XP and another Linux (Mandrake
10.1) i wanna know when in linux i can see drives of xp like C, D etc
but when in XP i cannot see the linux drive. can anyone tell me why
this happens?
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Because Linux "understands" filesystems used by WinXP (NTFS and FAT32)
while XP normally doesn't understand the Linux filesystems
(ext2/ext3/reiserfs...) so it ignores the corresponding partitions.
 
Ofnuts said:
Because Linux "understands" filesystems used by WinXP (NTFS and FAT32)
while XP normally doesn't understand the Linux filesystems
(ext2/ext3/reiserfs...) so it ignores the corresponding partitions.
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I found an EXT2 driver for Windows here.

http://www.fs-driver.org/

And using "Ext2IFS" as a search term in Google, there are other
options as well. They're mentioned near the end of this posting.
Judging by the junk on my C: drive, it looks like I used
explore2fs around the end of last year, to get some MythTV files
off my Linux drive and into Win2K :-)

http://groups.google.ca/group/AkronLUG/msg/cadca74d2e4e906c?dmode=source

So there are ways to access and deal with ext2, from Windows side.
I may have chosen the explore2fs method, as it seemed less invasive
at the time.

Paul
 
You'll neva walk alone! said:
thanks a lot guys but what abt the second question?
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Deduct the amount of memory that Windoes is showing in Control Panel/syetem
properties/general, from the amount of memory that is actually installed.
Thatshould give you what is being used. Or you could just go into the BIOS
and have a look there.
 
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