[SGVLUG] vista, fedora7 dualboot

[Miguel Hernandez]

Yea, John's totally right on that. I know I've avoided lots of problems by
just keeping the space I want to use completely unformatted & let Linux
format it during the install. It's not the best or fanciest way to do it,
but simple isn't a bad way to go sometimes. :)

hope that helps,
--miguel

On 10/27/07, John E. Kreznar <jek at ininx.com> wrote:
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> > I have a HP a6200n that comes with vista.  I used Vista utility to
> > create a partition L on C drive and formatted it in NTFS.
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> NTFS is not useful for a Linux partition.  The Linux installation
> procedure should offer an opportunity to reformat it with, for
> example, the ext2 file system.  Do that.
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> > When I try to install Fedora 7 it would not recognize the L drive
> > and insist on installing on the C drive.
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> If L is a partition, it will not show up as a drive.  Use fdisk or
> something (probably also available during the Linux installation
> procedure) to confirm the partitions are as you intend, then tell it
> to install on the appropriate partition(s).
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> - --
> John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13
>   Imagine there's no countries / to kill or die for  --John Lennon, 1971
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