[Kirbalicious]

Ok, here's what I got so far:
Got my Red Hat 9 CD's
Norton's Partition Magic
HD's plenty big enough

So then now my question: What do I do first? I assume that I have to create partitions for the Linux drives, right? Well, so far I've got a C: Drive which has all my windows stuff, then my D: Drive which is a recovery drive. Now for red hat 9, I'll need to create a drive for the linux, and then a swap drive between the two, right? Problem. How do you do that? I've got Partition Magic 8.0, so if somebody could just kinda walk me through the process, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

(P.S. my comp specs are on my sig if you got questions)

[Squashman]

If you have a spare hard drive or unpartitioned space on your current hard drive you can use the install cd's to create the partitions you need. If you dont have a spare hard drive or unpartitioned space on your current drive, you will need Partition Magic to create some unpartitioned space by make some of your other partitions smaller. You just need to create a swap partition for linux. You can do that during the install as well.

[AvvY]

You will need to decide which drive you want to give up some space from to create the linux partition. If you want to take it from C: or D: - then run a scan disk and defrag on that drive. Then run partition magic and create a 5gb aprox ext2 partition and a 512mb linux swap partition. This can all be housed in an extended partition. You can also - if u want, create a second primary partition for linux - 5gb - this will keep it completly spearate from win if any problems occur, but ur swap partition should be in an extended partition.

Late,

[Squashman]

Originally Posted by bigavvystyle

Then run partition magic and create a 5gb aprox ext2 partition and a 512mb linux swap partition.,

Why use ext2 when you can use ext3 or reiserfs?

[AvvY]

It all does much the same job as far as I know - I have used ext2 for my Linux installs and never had any probs. From what I have heard/read ext2 and ext3 are much the same. But I haven't heard of "reiserfs".

Which ever one Kirbalicious decides to use, it will still work.

If there is a diff between ext2 and ext3 would you mind sharing your wisdom?

Late,

[lynch]

Ext3 is a journaling filesystem. Here's the whitepaper on it.
lynch