I spent the morning blowing away windows XP and re-installing Fedora Core 1. I am one happy camper! I had no freespace on the 60 gog drive and the 20 gig was almost full so I started from scratch. I got the 20 gig as the boot / and swap partitions and the 60 gig as /home. All is well. I am truly enjoying this distro and this list! On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 02:11, Terry Truitt wrote: > Fedora does not have NTFS compiled into the kernel. You will need to > download and install kernel-NTFS package. You will be able to find the > rpm here http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/fedora1.html Take special > care in chosing what one you need for your set up. All the directions > are there as well. Have fun > > On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 19:03, Christopher Ness wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 21:44, G Gunther Wallen wrote: > > > Currently I have XP and TONS of music and pix etc on a 60 gig drive and > > > Linux on a 20 gig. I of course, use Grub to switch between the two. > > > What I want to do is keep the Fedora on the drive it's on since it's > > > 7200 RPM and use the other drive for data files. > > > > Wicked. Take any free space you have on the large drive and turn it > > into a ext3 file system. Move your files to that space and the smaller > > drive. Then wipe the remainder of the large drive. > > > > Now I'm not sure if fedora has NTFS compiled into the kernel for read, > > so you'll have to check your kernel config file for that in /boot but > > you should be able to mount your windows partition and copy anything > > important over to the windows partitions (that is if you have space > > since 60 > 20). I'm pretty sure knoppix does so it may be easier for > > you to burn the iso then compile a new kernel. > > > > You could turn that brand new hard drive into /home, /var, /tmp and > > maybe some swap space. Then turn the 20 gig into root (/). > > > > qtparted should repartition disks for you. I just don't think they can > > be mounted at the time so make a knoppix disk and boot that into RAM. > > > > It could take some dancing, but it's possible, especially if you have > > access to another computer on the network to temporarily store files. > > > > Of course nothing beats a fresh install. YMMV > > > > Cheers, > > Chris > > > > > What is the easiest way to accomplish this? I have all the data files > > > I will be blowing away stored on another machine. Do I just fdisk the > > > drive within Linux and format it? Do I then just copy my current /home > > > dir to that drive? > > > The only thing I am having a tough time grasping is Linux Directory > > > structure and how programs know where to look for stuff. > > > > > > > > > I have spent many hours getting FC1 set up the way I want it and HATE > > > the idea of starting over. >
