Thanks for this. Robin Williams Mobile: 07883017949 email and msn: robster3 at hotmail.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Whapples" <mikster4@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 5:33 PM Subject: Two questions > >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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
