Windows to Sabayon Question Please Help!

[philipfarris]

I hope this question does not start a session of whip the newbie.

I am dumping MS on a permanant basis and movin on up to Sabayon. I have a 80 GB & a 300 GB on my machine. The 80 GB contains Win XP media center and the 300 gig is full of my MP3's, movies, pics, etc. Once I dump Win XP and install Sabayon on the 80 gig will I be able to see my files on the 300 GB? If not what are my options so I can use my media files under LInux (Sabayon) off the 300 GB. If worst comes to worst I will back up with DVD's but at least 200 gigs of MP3's alone would be a choreasaurus rex to say the least.

Any other tips or traps for a Linux newbie may be thrown on as well. My machine is as follows,

Dell XPS 400
Pentium Dual Core 820
3 GB DDR2 @ 533
80 & 300 GB Sata HDD's
EVGA 7950GT 512 MB
Lite ON DVD & DVDRW

[Eden]

Since your 300GB partition is likely NTFS you will need to use ntfs-3g to access it, the problem is in the future if the partition needs checking Linux might not be able to do it. ntfs-3g will work fine for now but it would probably be a good idea to back everything up and change the filesystem to a more Linux orientated filesystem.

[philipfarris]

Thanks Eden! WOW fast response!!

ntfs-3g is a driver that allows linux to read/write on NTFS drives right? Will a option be given for this on install or is it something that I will need to add on myself and if so how? Is there a Sabayon new user guide or is it these forums (which are great so far) and the WiKi?

Thanks again!

[joost]

ntfs-3g is pre-installed and by default set to mount NTFS with read/write access.

[philipfarris]

Wow Again!

Thank you for your wonderful reply. I am ready to start my 1st install very shortly. I am truly amazed at how the Linux, Sabayon, community really does step up to help one another. I think I will fit in just fine here.

THANKS!