Hi, If you want to install Linux onto its own hard drive, then assuming the drive is already blank, the flavor you choose will most likely come with a utility which will format your disk automatically. If you already have Windows installed on a drive and wish to boot into either it or Linux, then you'll have to be careful when choosing a Linux distribution. Fedora Core comes with Disk Druid, a utility to help you format your hard drive, but I was never able to get it to work on my laptop. The easiest way to go about resizing your hard drive partitions from within Windows is to buy Partition Magic 8. While it's much easier to go this way, it isn't free. HTH, and good luck, Steve *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 4/20/2004 at 2:05 PM Leslie Fairall wrote: >Will I need to partition my hard drive before installing any distribution >of Linux? I mentioned before that my new Dell computer has 2 hard drives. >My 80 GB has Windows XP Home installed. I would like to install Fedora on >my 40GB. If I need to partition the 40 GB, what program do I use? Also, >what program do I use in order to have two different operating systems on >the same computer? Sorry in advance for the ignorant questions, but I'm >definitely a newbie here. > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup Stephen Clower, that guy from the south. You can reach me by any of the following: E-Mail: steve at steve-audio.net MSN: steve at steve-audio.net AIM: AudioRabbit03 You can also check out my little home on the web by visiting http://www.steve-audio.net
