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Please give a suggestion for Red Hat installation

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sime:
Insomnia is correct,

the install should just get on with it unless you actually want to do things by hand (loonies like me tend to split the file system across multiple partitions for redundancy and other reasons).

All things being equal it will automatically create a swap partition for you.

The current installs of most Linux distributions are very good, so just take your time, read the screen messages four times and press return once, when you are happy.

Enjoy

  :D  
 
Sime

[ August 27, 2003: Message edited by: sime ]

bwid_s_01:

quote:Originally posted by insomnia:


If this is your first Linux installation, leave the 4gig as free space and let Redhat do the partitonning.
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I'm actually thinking of doing that. But I have the following questions:
Does Linux support read/write to NTFS and/or FAT32? If so then I don't need RedHat to allocate its own program & data partition for me because then I would prefer to use the same Data partition I use for my personal date from Windows.

sime:
Careful,

I can't remember if it can write to NTFS or not off the top of my head but in any case will most likley read NTFS - FAT32 is OK and should be rw no problem.

Be careful though you should create a standard filesystem (ext2 / ext3) for Linux and then mount your NTFS / FAT32 partitions separatley under /mnt/blah from within /etc/fstab. You may well be given the option to do this from within the install.

Windows will NOT recognise the Linux partitions (unless someone knows different).

PLEASE, PLEASE backup all your important data BEFORE you start, just incase something goes pear shaped!

Remember million to 1 chances happen 9 out of 10 times!

Having fun yet?

 :D

Later

Sime

lonodnboi2k3:
Just a quick note,

Linux can read/write Fat32, Fat16 etc....

BUT

It can read NTFS but NOT write to NTFS!!

     :(    :cool:

sime:
Cool I got it right without looking @ my book, not such an old fart after all  :D

Later

Sime

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