info on installing, rather confused

[anthony crage]

Thanks for the info, but going to that page about disk partitioning led me 
to another question:

It mentions issues with "EZ-BIOS" being present... and I am pretty sure that 
is used somewhere, but due to not having complete control (and thus the 
ability to know what is going on when it goes on), I have no idea what it is 
or what it does... or why it may or may not cause a problem.

So should I be worried about it? Or will it most likely not cause a problem?


>From: Timothy John Giese <giese025 at tc.umn.edu>
>Reply-To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>Subject: Re: info on installing, rather confused
>Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 22:18:27 -0600
>
>anthony crage wrote:
>
>>
>>After the tech reformatted the HDD, he split our 45 gig HDD into 2 
>>partitions: a 30 gig and a 15. So, it registers as this in windows:
>>A:\ floppy
>>C:\ 30 gig partition
>>D:\ a second 6 gig HDD
>>E:\ 15 gig partition
>>F:\ cd-rw
>>G:\ cd-rom
>
>Here is a guide to installing RedHat 9... unless there have been major 
>changes to anaconda (the program that guides you through the installation), 
>the guide should be fairly applicable to Fedora.
>
>http://linux.about.com/library/bl/dist/redhat/bldist_redhat_inst.htm
>
>The two things that you should focus your reading on is:
>1. disk partitioning
>2. boot loader configuration
>
>Anaconda should recognize that windows is installed on the computer.
>If your E:\ drive is formatted (if you can actually use it), then you may 
>need to manually setup your partitions with Disk Druid.
>If your E:\ drive is unformatted free space, then you can have anaconda 
>automatically partition the remaining space.
>
>If you manually partition your drive with Disk Druid, then
>1. Make sure you are not deleting one of the windows partitions! :)  Look 
>at the sizes of the partitions... you should be able to see which one is 
>the 16GB partition.
>2. You will need to break that partition up into two partitions:
>    A) Swap partition (the size should be 2x the memory of your system)
>    B) A parition with a mount point of "/".  I suggest using the ext3 
>filesystem for this.
>
>You can create other partitions, but I don't want to confuse you here.
>
>If windows is already installed, then the boot loader configuration will 
>likely see that windows is there and you probably not have to do anything 
>special.
>(The boot loader is a piece of software that starts when the computer is 
>booted before an operating system is started.  The boot loader lets you 
>choose what operating system the computer should boot.)
>
>-Tim
>
>
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