On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> I've just decided to take a computer of mine and install Linux on it. I
> learn fairly quickly hands on, but as of now I don't even have Linux yet. My
> question is if Linux will install on a FAT32 HDD, because I know that Windows
> NT will not and I was curious as to wether Linux has this problem or not.
> Like I said, I don't have Linux yet and know absolutely nothing about it at
> this point in time.
The operating system Linux, uses its own filesystem type, thats ext2, it in
itself does not use the fat filesystem.
There are speacial cases where linux can be installed onto a fat(32) partition,
but that comes with a heavy performance loss, or so it is reported.
The basic idea is if one wishes to install linux on a HD wich has been
completely taken over by windows, then one must use a program like norton speed
disk or scandisk to defragment the drive and copy all data to the nearest free
bloks starting from the beginning of the drive, then use a program like
partition magic to split the disk up into a smaller partition for windows
leaving the rest undefined and free space.
You can create a linux partition with partition magic as well, or at least with
the latest version, however doing that is not recomended as some distro's
Eg'corel will not install on disks with no free space, what is meant there is,
no free space for partitioning, corel must make its own partitions.
Having said that distro's which will install on defined pre defined partitions
are;
slackware
redhat
suse
As to a complete list i dont know, however more and more distro's are going for
the I install and do everything myself attitude, which in my opinion is not
such a good idea, the linux way should be, you have the choise to define what
you want, not how (for example) corel wants.
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Regards Richard
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