At 08:08 PM 16/02/1999 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Partitioning your 1.2 gig hd wouldn't be a good idea as that would
>leave very little room for all the drive hungry windows stuff and
>these days the price of a new hd is fairly low. A new hd just for
>linux would also make the installation an easy proposition.
You can mount the windows partition using the mount command or the
configuration file /etc/fstab in Linux, so on the Linux side you would still
have access to your entire disk. Also, if you are getting a new disk, it's
probably a labor-saver to ask that the disk come pre-configured as C: and D:
drives (which may be normal for large HDs at this point?), then use DOS
'FDISK' to free up the D: partition for Linux. IIRC, though, it's a bad
idea to get a HD > 8 Gig for Linux, it may have a problem reading it. Check
the www.redhat.com page for supported hardware.
