The answer to the first question is that you can let the installation process set up the partitioning for you keeping in mind that Fedora 5 installation will need to be done via telnet if you can't see to read the screen. I am not sure why you might wish to install on to an external disk unless you would want to take your system from location to location. I believe however, that the boot information has to be on the drive that will be used to start the boot up process. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin Williams" <robster3@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 4:05 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 > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
