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Old 24th Jan 2019, 4:04 pm   #12
julie_m
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Default Re: Atari ST

If you do it the way I suggested, you'll only need a USB-MIDI interface that works with Linux; and nowadays, if you are running an up-to-date kernel, that seems to mean most of them. Once you have booted from the USB / CD, then you are not using your Windows 8 or any of its drivers anymore; then Linux is talking to the hardware, using its own drivers. Which are part of the kernel of Linux; and pretty much every driver that has ever been written for every piece of hardware that anyone ever got working with Linux is still in the Source Code tree! (But the ones less likely to be used in practice are not built by default, to save your disk space. You can build them and install them if you need, though).

You should still be able to see the drive(s) of your Windows machine from within Linux.
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