a few questions

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! wrote:
> 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?

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 wrote:
> You'll neva walk alone! wrote:
>> 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?
>
> 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.

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/AkronL...c?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

thanks a lot guys but what abt the second question?

You'll neva walk alone! wrote:
> thanks a lot guys but what abt the second question?

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.
--
SteveH