Re: [coLinux-devel] potentially bad idea

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>> follow the standard Gentoo bootstrap instructions, but instead of
>> creating a
>> raw filesystem partition, install to a loopback device which points to
>> your
>> windows filesystem.
>>
>> For example, it is possible to use Linux's built in NTFS "write" support
> ...
>> o Point the coLinux XML file at your ext3/gentoo install
>>

be shure to write only inside an already created loopback file and this
file should not be a sparce file. Linux can create errors in the
filesystem if creating a file or deleting it or changing it's size

chris