[geeks] Google announces Google Chrome OS

[Michael Parson]

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Sandwich Maker wrote:
>> On Jul 10, 2009, at 12:28 PM, adh at an.bradford.ma.us (Sandwich Maker) wrote:
>>>> On Jul 9, 2009, at 15:06 , Dan Sikorski wrote:
>>>>

>>>>> You can also mount a filesystem on an empty NTFS folder.  For
>>>>> example, i could mount a partition on windows as c:\users or
>>>>> c:\users\newuser or whatever.  Just set it up in disk manager,
>>>>> it's easy, just not too commonly used.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I've done that.
>>>
>>> if you wanted to move docs and settings to another slice, you'd also
>>> have to do the ms registry hack anyway - right?
>>
>> Mounting a drive as a subfolder isn't a registry hack, it's supported
>> by the WinXP/Server 2003 GUI as I recall.
>
> yes, but documents and settings isn't ordinarily empty as it's where
> xp expects to put user home dirs, complete with registry settings.
> that's the hack i was referring to. apparently there's an easy way to
> clue xp into this at install time but no easy way to change your - or
> its - mind later.
>
> idle q - having heard of triple-boot systems, is there a common fs
> type that xp, osx, and s10 can all mount? besides floppy, hsfs, and
> the like.

Fat32 is the probably lowest common denominator these days.

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Michael Parson
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