Two questions

[Robin Williams]

Thanks for this.
Robin Williams
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Whapples" <mikster4 at msn.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 5:33 PM
Subject: Two questions


> >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
>>
>
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