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| 454599 | 2006-05-13 08:16:00 | umm......i currently am running win2000 pro.........and i want to partition the hard drive so i can also use linux..............can i do that.........if so how (any helpful websites?)...........or do i have to reformat the entire harddrive again? | _lilmic_ (10271) | ||
| 454600 | 2006-05-13 08:30:00 | I take it that you currently have one hard drive and one partition. If I am wrong then please correct me. You might like to try Linux from a live CD like Knoppix which will boot off the CD without you having to repartition or install. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 454601 | 2006-05-13 10:41:00 | No - you don't have to reformat and install MSWIndows again. Some distributions allow a C: drive resize during the install and others don't. If they don't you need to use something like Partition Magic or QTParted (which is on the Knoppix disk refered to). That is the hard part done - there are plenty of very good references on the web to go through the install process e.g. fedora.redhat.com |
johnd (85) | ||
| 454602 | 2006-05-13 20:40:00 | I've just installed Fedora 5 and Kubuntu as trials in the last couple of days. Settled for Fedora for the moment. If you wish to share data with your Windows setup, you really need 3 partitions. One NTFS for XP, one FAT32 for your data - which can be read by Windows and mounted for reading by Linux, and the third partition (or unallocated space) for Linux itself. Then you can edit all your documents in either OS. To move your MyDocs to the FAT32 partition. Right click My Documents, click Properties and enter a new path. e.g. D:\Data |
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