Installation Question

[Anil Kumar Sharma]

Linux can work from with in a partition having FAT32, and swap space can as
well be a file on the same partition.
Definitely Linux will work from D:\ (fat32).
But Linux from C:\ (fat32) will depend on the capability of boot loader, you
have option of grub, lilo and wins multi-boot option among others.
Best option is to run Linux from a separate partition with native formatting
and swap on a separate dedicated partition.
There are many options to improve performance and to customize to your
needs. Google is every ones' friend.

But why ride a bicycle when U have a Ducati, except for burning the calories
within your body. C:\ Linux + Win will burn you out up to your brains along
with your calories.

In any case don't shy the why - just ask.


On 12/2/05, Ali Helmy <alihelmy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey James,
>
> Thanks alot for your reply, but I just wanted to ask a small question
> about one thing, in the end you said *"You will, of course, need some
> unformatted space or an unused partition on the hard drive into which you
> can install Fedora. Free space in C:\ won't do." *
> **
>
>  What does that mean? do you mean I HAVE to create a new partition? I mean
> i have already around 6GBs of free memory on the C partition, and that is
> the only partition I have... Do i have to re-align these 6 gigs to be a new
> partition on their own? Can't linux installation just manage it and do the
> work (ie: create partition, format and install) or do i have to do that
> manually?
> One more question, if i do have to do the above mentioned manually, any
> ideas how i can do it without losing the rest of the data on the partition,
> ie without losing the data other than the 6 gigs?
>
> Thanks
>
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