Istallation in windows directory

[Voltage Spike]

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On Tuesday 23 July 2002 04:24 pm, charlie bullen wrote:
> A few months ago I went to a westside plug meeting where there was a demo
> of installing linux in a windows directory. Is this possible if the disk is
> formated with ntfs?

Like the other guy said, yes and no.  The method of placing the file system 
inside of a disk image and using that is available.  However, I believe the 
boot procedure requires unprotected memory in order to install the Linux 
kernel.  Since no operating system sports unprotected memory and the NTFS 
file system, you would never be able to boot your image.

> I also can't remember which distro was used and how it was done so any
> advice would be appreciated

The distribution your probably saw was Lnx4win (Linux for Windows) by 
Mandrakesoft.  It doesn't look like it has been updated in a couple of years, 
and there is good reason for that.  I experimented for a while with the "file 
system within a file" setup, and the results were at least a dozen times 
slower than a dedicated partition.  Disk I/O was simply too costly, and the 
boot-up time was horrendous.

Your best bet is probably to either buy a second drive ($90 new if you shop 
around) or buy partition magic (which at $70 or so makes me turn back to 
option one).  Sorry.

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