ready to say goodbye to XP :)

[Terry Truitt]

Fedora does not have NTFS compiled into the kernel. You will need to
download and install kernel-NTFS package. You will be able to find the
rpm here http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/fedora1.html Take special
care in chosing what one you need for your set up. All the directions
are there as well. Have fun

On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 19:03, Christopher Ness wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 21:44, G Gunther Wallen wrote:
> > Currently I have XP and TONS of music and pix etc on a 60 gig drive and
> > Linux on a 20 gig.  I of course, use Grub to switch between the two. 
> > What I want to do is keep the Fedora on the drive it's on since it's
> > 7200 RPM and use the other drive for data files.
> 
> Wicked.  Take any free space you have on the large drive and turn it
> into a ext3 file system.  Move your files to that space and the smaller
> drive.  Then wipe the remainder of the large drive.
> 
> Now I'm not sure if fedora has NTFS compiled into the kernel for read,
> so you'll have to check your kernel config file for that in /boot but
> you should be able to mount your windows partition and copy anything
> important over to the windows partitions (that is if you have space
> since 60 > 20).  I'm pretty sure knoppix does so it may be easier for
> you to burn the iso then compile a new kernel.
> 
> You could turn that brand new hard drive into /home, /var, /tmp and
> maybe some swap space.  Then turn the 20 gig into root (/).
> 
> qtparted should repartition disks for you.  I just don't think they can
> be mounted at the time so make a knoppix disk and boot that into RAM.
> 
> It could take some dancing, but it's possible, especially if you have
> access to another computer on the network to temporarily store files.
> 
> Of course nothing beats a fresh install.  YMMV
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris
> 
> > What is the easiest way to accomplish this?   I have all the data files
> > I will be blowing away stored on another machine.  Do I just fdisk the
> > drive within Linux and format it?  Do I then just copy my current /home
> > dir to that drive?
> > The only thing I am having a tough time grasping is Linux Directory
> > structure and how programs know where to look for stuff.
> > 
> > 
> > I have spent many hours getting FC1 set up the way I want it and HATE
> > the idea of starting over.