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Aug 4th 2004 | #157554 Report |
Member since: Jan 14th 2003 Posts: 942 |
[QUOTE=DefactO]Well if you really want to, try FAT32 Partition Magic 8.0 works well as a partition manager program. EDIT: Don't try to install xp on FAT32x, my mistake.[/QUOTE] Right, i am about to install Fedora on my D: drive. Currently my D: is using the NTFS file system. Will NTFS work with my upcoming Fedora installation? Nos. |
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Aug 4th 2004 | #157556 Report |
Member since: Nov 18th 2003 Posts: 80 |
[QUOTE=Nostalgia]Right, i am about to install Fedora on my D: drive. Currently my D: is using the NTFS file system. Will NTFS work with my upcoming Fedora installation? Nos.[/QUOTE] No it will not. Fedora uses ext3 and swap and it will need to partition your drive. |
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Aug 4th 2004 | #157562 Report |
Member since: Nov 26th 2001 Posts: 2586 |
Just intall XP on how much space you need. 15 GB, 20 Gb... you choose, but leave the rest blank. When you install Linux, use the filesystem you choose. Ext3, Ext2, RFS ... I would choose either Ext2 or 3. Don't format the drive in NTFS before you install linux on it. You should only format the portion of the drive you intend to boot from using the installer, the rest you will format manually after installation. Both windows and *nix. You can make a partition Fat32 to share files between linux, or if Fedora has NTFS support you should be able to read from an NTFS partition. |
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Aug 4th 2004 | #157564 Report |
Member since: Jan 14th 2003 Posts: 942 |
The thing is, i have Windows on my C: drive, and don't really care to have it on my D:. Right now D: is totally formatted using the NTFS file system. When i install Fedora, will it give me a step where i can partition/format? Nos. |
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Aug 4th 2004 | #157567 Report |
Member since: Nov 18th 2003 Posts: 80 |
Delete the D: partition and leave C: at the same space it has and then run fedora installaer and choose 'Automatic Partitioning'. It will then ask you what you want to do with the current partitions. Say 'keep all existing partitions and use free space' (this will use the space from the deleted D: partition) After a few more simple steps of setting up Fedora it will partition the free space and create what it needs. That's how simple it is. Simply put: yes there is a partion tool with Fedora installer. |
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Aug 4th 2004 | #157570 Report |
Member since: Jan 14th 2003 Posts: 942 |
Ok, great. Remember though that D: is an entirely different hard drive, not just a seperate partition. Thanks for the help, i know i'm pretty n00b. Nos. |
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Aug 4th 2004 | #157574 Report |
Member since: Nov 26th 2001 Posts: 2586 |
Think of a partition as a drive. :P except on a different street than drive C: actually it will hda and hdb now that you are in Linux land... |
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Aug 4th 2004 | #157577 Report |
Member since: Jan 14th 2003 Posts: 942 |
OMG WTF. Nos. |
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Aug 4th 2004 | #157583 Report |
Member since: Nov 26th 2001 Posts: 2586 |
Lol... C:\ D:\ This is a DOS / Windows thing.... Everyone else in nerd-dom uses hda for drive C:\ -- so if you had 5 partitions on hda they would be /dev/hda0 /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3 /dev/hda4 ... You'll see your mounted partitions in your /etc/fstab file... If you haven't yet, try using VI or VIM... L33t text editors :P If you can master these you will be on your way to a linux nerd. I still can't use them worth crap. But I used vi to edit an sql prefix on a 50 meg sql backup file and it took about 8 seconds. Try that in notepad - it crashes windows - lol... vim is a color coded version of vi for x windows. |
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Aug 4th 2004 | #157618 Report |
Member since: Nov 18th 2003 Posts: 80 |
By default the anaconda installer(fedora installer) will choose hda as the harddrive. PAY ATTENTION!!!! Basically it will ask you what harddrive to use(it will only show hard drives, not partitions) So select your D drive, most likely called 'hdb' in the list. THen go on with the same instuctions as above.
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