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Re: [TCLUG:4884] Install Win95 & Linux-Windows crashes
On that note, there's nothing stopping anyone from writing a ext2 driver
for WinNT and Win98. All you would need is the DDK from MSDN plus the
ext2 code from Linux. (That, and a bit of patience I suspect.) Also, you
would have to find a way to thunk DOS filesystem calls to ext2 calls.
Once you had such a driver and thunking layer, there wouldn't be much
stopping Windows from running on pure ext2 systems. I have to say that it
would be nice to be able to run Linux filesystem tools for my Windows
stuff too.
Just a thought. :+)
-----Original Message-----
From: John R Sheets <dusk@smsi-roman.com>
To: tclug-list@listserv.real-time.com <tclug-list@listserv.real-time.com>
Date: Thursday, March 18, 1999 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:4884] Install Win95 & Linux-Windows crashes
>You could persuade Microsoft to add ext2 support to Explorer.
>(c: Don't hold your breath, though.