ready to say goodbye to XP :)

[G. Gunther Wallen]

I spent the morning blowing away windows XP and re-installing Fedora
Core 1.

I am one happy camper!
I had no freespace on the 60 gog drive and the 20 gig was almost full so
I started from scratch.  I got the 20 gig as the boot / and swap
partitions and the 60 gig as /home.  All is well.
I am truly enjoying this distro and this list!




On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 02:11, Terry Truitt wrote:
> 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.
>