What am I saying? The sata or scsi will be sequential, sda, sdb, sdc, etc. Sorry. Janina Sajka writes: > You don't say whether these are ide or sata or scsi. If ide and on > separate controllers, they will be hda and hdc, and if on a single > controller hda and hdb. If sata or scsi they'll be sda and sdc, or sda > and sdb. Each of your partitions will be numbered. Note that c: d: and > e: aren't disks, despite Windows parlance. They're partitions on a > single disk. That should help you understand. > > So, the first disk, assuming it's ide, will have hda1, hda2, and hda3. > When you get to diskdruid you can tell for sure, because diskdruid will > print out the size of the partition. > > Note that you are advised to consider at least two partitions for Linux: > a / partition for the all the system files, and a /home for all your > data. The point is that you don't want to have to reformat your /home > when the day comes that you want to reinstall Linux to take advantage of > a new OS release. > > Janina > > jaffar writes: > > Hi friends. I have just gotten fedora six and I am wanting to get it > > installed on my machine which will also concurrently run win xp. I have 2 > > hard disks on my machine, 1 300 gb in size and another 120 gb. the volume > > labels on the 300 gb disk are labeled C, D, and E, while the volume labels > > on the 120 gb disk are labeled F, G and H respectively. If i want to > > partition the F drive and do a clean install of fedora on it, then what does > > it correspond to in the linux linguo? I have read and reread the red hat > > installation directions, but still can't figure it out. All help on this > > will be greatly appreciated. Cheers!
