On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 22:57 -0700, Matthew Hoggan wrote:
I now have win 2k and fedora 7 installed on the same hard drive. However, I have run into a few issues that I am looking for answers.
- fdisk –l is not working
In what way doesn't it work? What do you get back when you try to use it? I suspect you're not doing it as the root user, or that you just did a "su" rather than "su -" and don't have the full root environment.
- is it bad that I did not set up a swap, and if so is there a way I
can set it up in Linux after installation
Seeing as you're still partitioning, you can make a swap partition and add it to your fstab file. Read "man mkswap" for starters. An alternative is a swap file, but I think a swap partition is still better.
- I have 150 gigs of un-partitioned space on my hard drive how do I
partition it in Fedora so I can write to it from both linux and win2k if that is even possible
They can both read FAT, and it's probably the easiest middle ground between them, but it doesn't support individual file ownership. Fedora can read NTFS, but I don't know how well it works at read and write. There are add-ons for Windows that allow it to read Linux's EXT3 file systems. You need to work out what's most important to you.