I'm not a guru either, but Linux should be able to recognise most if not all
partition types, you just need to mount the partition and assign it a mount
point. If you've ever come across Knoppix you will know what I mean. I used
it on several NT machines to boot from the CD and it read directly the NTFS
partitions on the drives.
A quick google
gave this
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/instructions.html
So apparently it's definitely possible with the addition of the driver from
the above page, I'm not sure if it's read only or read write, but read only
should suffice to get your images into linux to print
Glenn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Husband" <thusband@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 10:35 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Linux/XP File Recognition
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Roger L Sopher"
> <rlsopher@c...> wrote:
> > XP will see the EXT3 partition but will be unable to read it. The
> problem
> > won't be with XP since you can change the format of a partition in
> your
> > windows area from NTFD to vfat (after moving any critical data to
> another
> > partition). An easier way that comes to mind would be to use
> partition magic
> > to add a vfat partition in windows then you wouldn't have to piddle
> around
> > with moving data etc.
> >
> > What I ended up doing in one of my Linux crazes was to set up a vfat
> > partition in windows, reinstall redhat making sure that I defined
> the
> > windows vfat partition with Disk Druid and then went through the
> rest of
> > getting updated files etc and then installed QTR. I am sure there
> is a
> > direct way of getting Linux to see the new vfat partition but I am
> not
> > enough of a Linux guru to be able to do that at this point.
> >
> > Roger
>
> Thanks Roger! Good information. I now have some options. I'd like
> to get Linux to recognize a new vfat partitions which I'll create
> with Partition Magic. Failing that I could go the flash memory
> route. I guess I could also burn a CD in XP and open it in Linux.
> I'll have to play around.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Tom
>
>
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