Re: Should be easy right (newbie)

From: Admiral Drayson (please--no-replies-by-email_at_news.groups)
Date: 08/30/03 

Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 19:14:27 +0200

Hi Slake,

Being a newbie myself (have not yet started, currently making an inventory),
I already found out that NTFS can't be used with Linux.

It's "reserved" by Microsoft (no specs available regarding the structure of
the filesystem)....
So make sure it's formatted with Fat or Fat32.

Admiral Drayson
Linux newbie-in-preparation

"slake" <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]> schreef in bericht
news:20030830150642.26469.qmail@riot.eu.org...
> I have an 40GB hard drive D: that is
> unused on my windows xp home edition. Windows
> resides on my C: drive. The D: is NTFS and all 40 GB
> is partitioned. I would like to install Redhat 9 on D:
> I do not care about sharing files between windows and linux.
> I would also like to use all of D: for linux. Just boot from CD-ROM
> and follow the GUI install right?
>
> There is so much documentation
> for installing Redhat on the partitioned hard drive
> along side windows that I think I'm getting info overloaded.
> Since I'm usuing a free drive I would think that most of the
> problems would not occur. I'm getting lost in the details
>

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