Re; automatic partitioning in redhat

[Thomas D. Ward]

Hi. I recall somewhere hearing that it was possible to automatically 
partition the drive, and keep Windows. I blieve you have to tell Red Hat 
to keep existing partitions, and not to format them.
 
I'm not sure, because I always manually do the job, and don't really like 
the way Red Hat partitions the drive. I'd rather have /home an/var 
separate from the rest of the / partition. The reason is that you can 
later tell Red Hat not to format those partitions in a reinstall and not 
loose your mail, www stuff, and mp3 files, and what ever you have in /home 
and /var.