Two questions

[Richard Villa]

The answer to the first question is that you can let the installation process set up the partitioning for you keeping in mind that Fedora 5 installation will need to be done via telnet if you can't see to read the screen.

I am not sure why you might wish to install on to an external disk unless you would want to take your system from location to location.  I believe however, that the boot information has to be on the drive that will be used to start the boot up process.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Williams" <robster3 at hotmail.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 4:05 AM
Subject: Two questions


> Hi all, I'm about to do my first independent installation of Fedora core 5 and I have two questions. The first is a bit basic. 
>  I've just had to format my laptop and lost all my data, and stupidly forgot that linux needs to run on an ext2 or ext3 partition, instead I created two fat32 partitions one of which has windows and the other on which I planned to install linux. Should I delete this partition and install Fedora on the free space or can I leave it there and have the Fedora installation convert it to ext3? If I should delete it which is the best way? I'm thinking about using parted in grml but am a bit nervous. 
> 
>  Secondly is it possible to install Fedora to an external hard drive? I know you can boot in to it from one when beginning the installation but am not sure if it will pick up the drive when I go to install. If it's possible has anybody had any experiences, good or bad, with running Fedora core from an external drive? 
> 
>  Thanks for any help. 
> Robin Williams       
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