On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 01:23 +0300, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > Hi Randall Schulz ! > > Randall wrote: > > The partition structure is independent of the type of file system > > created on those partitions. I.e., it is not necessary to repartition a > > drive (that's already partitioned) in order to install Linux. > > > It may be unnecessary to repartition on Linux-ready system, than > already has ext partitions. > > On typical Home Windows systems, when there is one single big 200 GB > hard drive and 200 GB NTFS partition on it, like 99% of all world's > Home PCs those days shipped, you _can not_ install a Linux on such a > typical system without repartitioning it first. > > Have you worked with _typical_ Windows systems ever ?
Yes, probably before you knew what one was. There is a resize function within the install process to resize the single partition without having to reload windows and then linux. That is it's purpose, to give you a partition to install on. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
