Two questions

[Michael Whapples]

>I don't know if there is anything specific to fedora, but these are my 
>answers relating to linux in general.
>
> If your external drive needs nothing fancy to run it, i.e. is just needs 
> the standard USB storage device drivers, and your computers BIOS can 
> support booting from USB devices, you can do it. I think I once found a 
> distro with USB disk images. Question though, does fedora allow that.
>
> The fat32 partition you intended for linux will have to be changed (well 
> you probably could run linux from fat32 if you made sure that the kernel 
> was up to it by having all necessary parts built in, but it does 
> complicate things). Depends what you mean by convert, I think anything 
> that will convert it will be doing non-destructive re-partitioning in the 
> background, which you could do yourself if you wanted to. This means that 
> your drive won't need to be completely blanked, so your windows partition 
> should be fine (recommendation is still to backup before).
>
> From
> Michael Whapples
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robin Williams" <robster3 at hotmail.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 10:05 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
>