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| 211046 | 2004-01-29 20:54:00 | Umm... I wouldn't try installing linux on NTFS. Linux uses the EXT3 (or EXT2..) filesystem. When you come to the partitioning part of the installation format the whole hard disk for EXT3 (if you want to run windows as well youll need to partition the disk in half, half for FAT32 or NTFS and the other half for EXT3). Install linux on the EXT3 partition you made. Only thing is that windows can't see past LILO (in my experiences with win98SE, not sure about GRUB), so you'll want to partition for windows and linux, install windows, then install linux along with the bootloader. Cheers Forrest. |
forrest44 (754) | ||
| 211047 | 2004-01-29 21:12:00 | I don't want to install windows! I am installing Linux. It is going on to a 40 gig hard disk. Just a single partition. Chill answered my question. He says that linux will re-format the disk to whatever system it needs. |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 211048 | 2004-01-29 21:24:00 | The process will be to delete the NTFS partition and create new partitions using ext3 or Reister. The installer should allow you to do this. I suggest a mimimum of /boot, /, /home and swap. | JohnD (509) | ||
| 211049 | 2004-01-29 21:35:00 | I'd just let it work its own magic to be honest. Im pretty sure that SuSE does that anyways :-) What about xfs? ;-) Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 211050 | 2004-01-29 22:51:00 | When I was first playing with Linux, I installed RedHat 7.1 onto a FAT32 partition and booted into it via a floppy (under Windows it was just one massive .img file). It worked fine except they said that it would run a bit slower as it wasn't a native Linux partition. | Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 211051 | 2004-01-29 23:34:00 | What the hell's "xfs" ???????????????????? | JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 211052 | 2004-01-30 00:22:00 | Short answer: Don't worry about it. Longer answer: Its one of the many filesystems linux can be installed on natively, along with ext2/3, reiserfs, jfs, etc. SUSE will pick one for you. |
bmason (508) | ||
| 211053 | 2004-01-30 00:33:00 | Dolby> Yeah, That's how I first installed Linux too, with Redhat 7.1 That doesnt seem to work anymore, I believe they removed loopback rootfs support in 8.0? Jack> Dont wory about xfs, I was only taking the piss when ReiserFS was mentioned ;-) Its just another File-system as Bmason said :-) My XBox lags quite a bit though because I've not done a native install... It does slow down a lot, but not too much that its unbearable :-) Not that you need to know that seeing as you're just going to follow along with what SuSE gives you partition-wise :-) Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 211054 | 2004-01-30 03:26:00 | And the easiest way to do an installation is to give the Linux installer an empty disk with no partitions. I like ext3. The journalling works. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 211055 | 2004-01-30 07:47:00 | > I like ext3 . The journalling works . That reminds me of an interesting story about the time I was using ext3 and tripped over the powercord . . . . |
bmason (508) | ||
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