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About to burn and install Fedora Core 3 w/A64 support

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Trente

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Hi,

I got an old Seagate 17GB hard drive in my old rig; It has Windows XP installed using FAT32 file system.

Since the SATA drive in my main rig is already dedicated to running XP SP2, I thought I might try setting up Fedora on that IDE drive.

I've already backed up the data contained in the drive; Is there a need to format it using NT/9x/DOS before launching Fedora's installation program, or do I let Fedora format it?

I was thinking about partitioning the drive in the following manner:

Linux system = 8GB
Swap = 2GB (I got 1gig of ram)
Home /dir = 5GB
FAT32 = 1GB (in order to share files with Windows)

Do you have a better suggestion?

Any other things a Linux n00b has got to take into consideration before diving in?

Thanks guys!
 
There's no need to format the disk before launching Fedora's installer.

I wouldn't bother with a separate partition for /home. If you ever fill up either / or /home and you still have space on the other you'll wish you'd just used a single, larger partition.

IMO, 2GB of swap is way more than you'll ever need. I have ~512MB of swap (with a gig of ram) and very rarely see more than about 2MB of it used.

A 1GB vfat formatted partition would be fine for sharing files with windows; just be sure that's all you'll need to avoid later hassles (you can always install captive later, though, for full read/write access to your NTFS partition(s)).
 
A separate partition for /home is pretty nice to have when it comes time to upgrade/reinstall.

And as far as picking the sizes wrong and filling one up -- Fedora Core 3 defaults to an LVM (Logical Volume Management) partitioning scheme. This allows you to dynamically resize your partitions if you decide you want to grow one or shrink another. This can actually all be done without even unmounting the partitions with the new online ext2/3 resizing.
 

Boot your system using a live CD such as Knoppix to see if it would auto detect your graphic card & monitor.

I'm not sure as to xorg.conf or XF86config that Core 3 use, however you can check them in /etc/X11

 
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