>I don't know if there is anything specific to fedora, but these are my >answers relating to linux in general. > > If your external drive needs nothing fancy to run it, i.e. is just needs > the standard USB storage device drivers, and your computers BIOS can > support booting from USB devices, you can do it. I think I once found a > distro with USB disk images. Question though, does fedora allow that. > > The fat32 partition you intended for linux will have to be changed (well > you probably could run linux from fat32 if you made sure that the kernel > was up to it by having all necessary parts built in, but it does > complicate things). Depends what you mean by convert, I think anything > that will convert it will be doing non-destructive re-partitioning in the > background, which you could do yourself if you wanted to. This means that > your drive won't need to be completely blanked, so your windows partition > should be fine (recommendation is still to backup before). > > From > Michael Whapples > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robin Williams" <robster3 at hotmail.com> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 10:05 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 >
