Re: A few quick newbie questions...

From: James McKenzie (jjmckenzie51_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 02/26/05

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    Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 22:42:49 -0700
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    Jonathan Berry wrote:
    > On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:20:43 -0500, Erik Hemdal <ehemdal@townisp.com> wrote:
    > [snip]
    >
    > Yes, use this approach if you are doing a fresh install, or don't mind
    > reformatting and reintstalling. You can do it in other orders, but
    > this offers the least trouble if you have the choice. If you have
    > already installed Linux and have a partition that you can install
    > Windows on, you can install Windows and then boot to the rescue CD to
    > reinstall GRUB. There are plenty of examples of this on the web and
    > in the archives. Again, if you have the choice, do it in the order
    > you specified.
    >
    I recommend rebuilding the system, if you can do this. Backup your data
    and remove everything else. Install XP first, and convert to NTFS if
    you desire. I recommend adding a partition for moving data between XP
    and Linux. Of course, this should be a FAT/FAT32 partition.
    >
    >>a system which currently contains XP, reduce the size of your NTFS partition
    >>to make space for Fedora. Do not alter the small FAT partition which XP has
    >
    >
    > To resize the NTFS partition, you will need to use Partition Magic
    > (not free) or qtparted (free). You can use Knoppix or System Rescue
    > CD to get qtparted (Google the names to find the sites). I would also
    > recommend running scandisk and defrag in Windows to get files toward
    > the front of the drive to make resizing less dangerous (always a
    > chance of messing something up, though it has worked for me). You
    > can also turn off the swap file, reboot, and defrag before you resize
    > as the swapfile is usually located somewhere near the end of the drive
    > (a huge green (unmovable) block in the defrag tool).
    >
    As always, before using any partition altering software product, backup
    your system.
    >
    >>created (XP needs a FAT partition to work). Leave the freed up space
    >
    >
    > Uhh, I'm not sure what this "small FAT partition" is that Erik talks
    > of, but my laptop has XP and FC3 on it with no FAT partitions at all.
    > WinXP does not need FAT, if anything, it needs NTFS. Now, I've only
    > used XP Pro, so perhaps XP Home needs a FAT partition, but I've never
    > heard that and it doesn't make much sense to me.
    >
    XP does not need to have FAT anywhere on a system. I have an older
    system with Win2K installed on it and all of the drive is NTFS. Linux
    is gaining the ability to read and write NTFS. I don't know if this is
    a good thing or not. Only time will tell. 

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