Re: Linux installation on a new, 2nd hard drive

From: Allen McIntosh (mcintosh_at_mc-pc.research.telcordia.com)
Date: 09/05/03 

Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 13:40:58 GMT

In article <bj9pne$llp$1@ctb-nnrp2.saix.net>,
Dallas 2 <dallas@nospam.com> wrote:
>Ultimately I will lose the XP, it's just that I don't want to lose all those
>jpegs and mp3z. Will I be able to migrate them from C & D to HDB on the
>Linux drive?

You might not want to get rid of XP completely, since it's occasionally
useful [e.g. to look at stuff OpenOffice can't handle].

You should be able to mount the C & D drives directly. If the partitions
are formatted using some version of FAT, the install should have asked you
about them. If they are NTFS, you need an extra RPM. Google for something
like "RedHat NTFS". The NTFS partitions should be mounted read-only.

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