[99403] in RedHat Linux List
Re: A newbie question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Statux)
Sat Nov 14 01:41:55 1998
From: "Statux" <statux@bigfoot.com>
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Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 06:39:50 -0000
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Never put Linux onto a FAT partition. Totally unwise. Best place to put
Linux is on it's own disk (or system).
-----Original Message-----
From: Betty <bettyj@compusmart.ab.ca>
To: Linux Newbies <linux-newbie@vger.rutgers.edu>; L.U.S.T List
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Date: Saturday, November 14, 1998 6:29 AM
Subject: A newbie question
>I am a complete Linux and Unix newbie. I have not even received my CD
>yet to install it into my system. So until that time I have been
>reading these lists and as much information on the web that I can find.
>I have read Linux support and Novell support and I am still looking for
>an answer to this. I have the read the information and as far as I can
>tell when I install
>Linux onto a partition of my hard drive it can be a DOS formatted
>partition.
>Is this right?
>
>I purchased an 8.4 gig Maxtor DiamondMax EIDE HD today, I want to
>install it and divide into 4 fairly equal pieces.
>
>Part 1 or C drive: will be my DOS/Win95 part. I will still keep this
>as it will take me a while to learn and understand Linux and my son also
>
>wants it so he can run his games. From what I have read Drive C has to
>be for Win95. And I am hoping this can be a Novell Client as well.
>
>Part 2 will be for Novell 5 server files, this part CANNOT be DOS
>partitioned or formatted, it must be left free by fdisk and allow the
>Novell install program to do all the partitioning and formatting. Please
>note this is Novell Netware 5, the newest version. It's protocols are
>now IP, and even though it can be backward compatible with IPX, I do not
>need to install this as I do not have an earlier version of Netware on
>my system.
>
>Part 3 will be for my Linux installation which I am hoping to install
>RedHat 5.2, but have not received the CD yet. I also want to put in an
>X-Windows Manager and make this a Novell Client.
>
>Part 4 will be for Windows applications and data files. And of course
>this can be fdisked and formated by DOS.
>
>So my question is: If I can partition part 3 under DOS (even though
>this will be for Linux), then I can go ahead and install my new HD and
>start getting all this set up.
>
>Otherwise I do not know how I will differentiate between the portion I
>need to leave unformatted for Novell Netware and the partition I want
>for Linux. I understand that Linux cannot be on the slave drive. I was
>going to do this originally and put the Linux on my other hard drive
>(the 2.1 gig one)
>but from what I am reading this will not be accessible on boot-up as
>this will be installed on the secondary IDE. My CD-Rom is an IDE drive
>and is my IDE slave.
>
>If I do have to fdisk and format it a little differently so Linux will
>recognize this is there a special utility for this? If so, I will need
>to find this utility as I do not have my Linux CD yet. Since I do not
>expect it until December, I do not want to wait that long to install
>this new HD.
>
>Can you help? Most of the information I have read is very good but
>assumes running Windows and Linux. I am also putting Novell in the
>equation and I am unsure if this will change anything. And I have
>another computer on my "Network" as well. It is my older computer with
>a much smaller HD and currently runs Windows 95.
>
>Or perhaps someone can direct me to a book or a site where I can get
>more information.
>
>Thanks
>Betty
>--
>E-mail: bettyj@compusmart.ab.ca
>ICQ: 4061333
>
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