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RH7.3, partition or empty space

RH7.3, partition or empty space

Post by John Ne » Thu, 12 Sep 2002 07:34:39



Newbie question here. I have a 13.2GB drive with four partitions and
currently triple-boot with OSs:

C = Win98 - FAT
D = WinNT 4.0 - NTFS
E = WinNT 4.0 - NTFS
F = empty - currently NTFS

I'd like to install Linux in F, and then eventually boot from any of them.
But my initial question is this: when installing RH 7.3 is it better to
simply have empty space following E (ie no partition) or is it better to
format F first as, say, ext2? I have Partition Manager 6 so can do either.

Or something else.

--
John New
Sydney, Australia

 
 
 
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RH7.3, partition or empty space

Post by John » Thu, 12 Sep 2002 08:54:11



> Newbie question here. I have a 13.2GB drive with four partitions and
> currently triple-boot with OSs:

> C = Win98 - FAT
> D = WinNT 4.0 - NTFS
> E = WinNT 4.0 - NTFS
> F = empty - currently NTFS

> I'd like to install Linux in F, and then eventually boot from any of them.
> But my initial question is this: when installing RH 7.3 is it better to
> simply have empty space following E (ie no partition) or is it better to
> format F first as, say, ext2? I have Partition Manager 6 so can do either.

> Or something else.

> --
> John New
> Sydney, Australia


To answer your question: If you intend to install linux, I'd leave it as
unpartitioned space. But don't worry the RH installer will tell you to
reformat it into ext.

However, you din't mention the sizes of the partitions. I'm not sure if
linux would even boot being that far back on the disk. Give it a try.

-John

 
 
 
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