On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:16:20 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> openSUSE 11.1 and 11.2 RC (which is in final testing now) should
>> include ntfs-3g, so should be able to mount the NTFS partitions without
>> a problem.
> 
> I have no problem using ntfs-3g and mounting NTFS drives RW from my
> OpenSuse 11 that I downloaded many months ago. I don't know it's on the
> live CD, but it's definitely in the distro somewhere.

Yeah, on my 11.1 box, I've a small Vista partition (came with the system 
and I left it "just in case" I needed it for something, but shrunk it 
down really small) and I noticed that the system mounts them at boot time 
automatically.  I'm kinda assuming with the live media it's there - would 
make sense to me if it was, since one might want to use the software on 
the disc to open doc files to check compatibility.

>> With the live media, everything runs of the media - no need to perform
>> an installation.  The media is primarily to permit a user wanting to
>> "test drive" Linux to see some of the features/functionality and to
>> ensure system compatibility prior to installation.
> 
> Yeah, I learned that one the hard way. :-)

:-)

Jim

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