Cristian Burneci wrote:
. > I use Red Hat 6.1. The install program is pretty straight forward. Steve
. > explained this very well in his posting. On the CD you should be able to
. > find information about how the disk should be partitioned. The actual
. > partitioning takes place during the installation. No need for Partition
. > Magic.
I also have Red Hat something (the version that was the first to come out
with "automatic" installation), and have been hesitant to use the fdisk that
comes with Red Hat as it warns that if you make a mistake, fdisk can wipe out
your entire HD, including other partitions. (I have multi-boot partitions
for DOS and W98 in one machine created with System Commander.) With
warnings like that, I would prefer to do my disk partitioning with Partition
Magic. However, it seems that everyone is "dumbing down" to Windoze's
automatic installation procedures and not giving the user succinct
information as to exactly what partitions are necessary or should be created.
I have my DOS machines partitioned in a logical (to me anyway) manner, and I
would like to do the same things with Linux. It looks like I will learn
about Linux when,
A. I have time to study books about it, or,
B. When I *have* to install it in order to run some program.
(I'll bet dollars to donuts, it will be the latter. <G> The former will
occur right after I get around to becoming a procrastinator.)
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona USA
