Install over XP

[Terry R. Grier]

Perefect... That is 100% of what I was looking for..

Thanks man.

T
Texas


Gregory Woodbury wrote:

>On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 05:57:16PM -0600, Terry R. Grier wrote:
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>>I am trying to install FC3 on my laptop.
>>It has a 20gig HD formatted as NFTS.
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>>I have tried to use the auto and manual to create the root/swap dirs.
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>>The install program will not let me do the install.
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>>I understand that NFTS is worthless for linux.
>>I am not sure how to proceed.  I feel like I am in a catch-22
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>>I boot XP and tried to format the C drive and windows will not let me.
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>>Suggesttions?
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>>Thank you.
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>>I have been looking on line and I can find a ton of info the file system 
>>and sharing with windows.. but I cannot find advice on this isssue.
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>>Thank you for your help.
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>What you need to do during the install, before selecting manual or
>automatic partitioning, is to press <ctrl+alt+f2> to switch to the
>command line terminal and do:
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>	fdisk /dev/hda
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>and delete the NTFS partition.  Write out the (empty) partition table,
>and then restart the install process by hitting the reset button.
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>This will present the Fedora installer with an empty disk that it should
>be able to deal with properly.
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>Hope This Helps (HTH)
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