From: not.my.real@email.address   
      
   On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:08:13 GMT, tester wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:42:36 +0000, tester wrote:   
   >   
   >> We should have a way to run WinXP on EXT3 file system as it's core /   
   >> native file system. Doing this should theoretically solve Fragmentation   
   >> as compared to the native NTFS file system.   
   >>   
   >> I was thinking if it could be hakt @ core level, then apps that simply   
   >> use Windows calls to write to disk should continue to work fine. Apps   
   >> that use native-NTFS code embedded inside of them would require change   
   >> to function properly, obviously, & would be counter-productive. Will a   
   >> core hak work for enough of XP apps to make it worthwhile?   
   >>   
   >> Any comments welcome. Please reply in 'alt.2600.hackers' if you think   
   >> about it.   
   >>   
   >> Thank you to all my teachers,   
   >> & Thank You to anyone that's ever helped someone, Regards,   
   >>   
   >> ~tester   
   >   
   >   
   > I found a way to instead run WinXP from inside Ubuntu! This is basically   
   > just as good. The "C drive" of Windows actually becomes a large file   
   > sitting inside the linux hard disk. So it is windows running IN EXT3, not   
   > really ON EXT3, as I had originally thought of above. If my first post is   
   > still worth a shot though, go 4 it.   
   >   
   > Here are links to how to run XP in Ubuntu (with fast speed(?))-   
      
   I'm assuming the links are about emulation. I've been emulating Windows in   
   Linux for several years, but I don't emulate XP -- I stick with Win9x &   
   Win2k, mostly for testing purposes (but that machine's actual Windows   
   install is XP).   
      
   As for using ext2/3/4/whatever as the boot drive: You can access ext2   
   partitions from NT systems using an IFS driver (such as [1]), but I don't   
   know if you can boot from them.   
      
   [1] http://www.fs-driver.org/   
      
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