Hi Matt,
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Matt Upton wrote:
Thanks guys, so what your saying is the best solution is to set up Fedora Core 2 as a FAT32 partition type and then set up another FAT32 partition type to store data in so I can read between Linux and Windows XP instead of re-installing Windows under FAT32. That would work? Or is there a way to change my partition type in Windows without re-installation? I already have all the network stuff set up and don’t want to mess with all that again.
1. Use your Partition Magic to shrink the size of the XP (NTFS) partition. 2. Use the space you have saved to: (a) create a FAT32 partition to store the data you wish to share between XP & Linux, and (b) install Fedora into, using the regular Linux filesystem type of ext3.
You cannot install Fedora onto a FAT32 partition, but once installed it will read and write such a partition quite happily.
Also, do I create the partition as Logical or Primary or does it not matter?
Your XP install will already be on a primary partition. I'd also suggest making a small (~100MB) primary partition for /boot when you install Fedora but other than that everything else can be a logical partition.
Regards, Paul.
