After a few weeks of playing with several linux Distros I am ready to get rid of XP! (YAY)
Currently I have XP and TONS of music and pix etc on a 60 gig drive and Linux on a 20 gig. I of course, use Grub to switch between the two. What I want to do is keep the Fedora on the drive it's on since it's 7200 RPM and use the other drive for data files.
What is the easiest way to accomplish this? I have all the data files I will be blowing away stored on another machine. Do I just fdisk the drive within Linux and format it? Do I then just copy my current /home dir to that drive? The only thing I am having a tough time grasping is Linux Directory structure and how programs know where to look for stuff.
I have spent many hours getting FC1 set up the way I want it and HATE the idea of starting over.
On 5 Apr 2004, at 02:44, G Gunther Wallen wrote:
After a few weeks of playing with several linux Distros I am ready to get rid of XP! (YAY)
Currently I have XP and TONS of music and pix etc on a 60 gig drive and Linux on a 20 gig. I of course, use Grub to switch between the two. What I want to do is keep the Fedora on the drive it's on since it's 7200 RPM and use the other drive for data files.
Assuming the other drive is using NTFS, look at the NTFS linux project (http://ntfs-linux.sf.net).
This will allow you to read the data. If you'd like to write it too, captive-ntfs is the thing for you (google search it).
Hope this helps, Martin Alderson, IntechHosting
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On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 21:44, G Gunther Wallen wrote:
Currently I have XP and TONS of music and pix etc on a 60 gig drive and Linux on a 20 gig. I of course, use Grub to switch between the two. What I want to do is keep the Fedora on the drive it's on since it's 7200 RPM and use the other drive for data files.
Wicked. Take any free space you have on the large drive and turn it into a ext3 file system. Move your files to that space and the smaller drive. Then wipe the remainder of the large drive.
Now I'm not sure if fedora has NTFS compiled into the kernel for read, so you'll have to check your kernel config file for that in /boot but you should be able to mount your windows partition and copy anything important over to the windows partitions (that is if you have space since 60 > 20). I'm pretty sure knoppix does so it may be easier for you to burn the iso then compile a new kernel.
You could turn that brand new hard drive into /home, /var, /tmp and maybe some swap space. Then turn the 20 gig into root (/).
qtparted should repartition disks for you. I just don't think they can be mounted at the time so make a knoppix disk and boot that into RAM.
It could take some dancing, but it's possible, especially if you have access to another computer on the network to temporarily store files.
Of course nothing beats a fresh install. YMMV
Cheers, Chris
What is the easiest way to accomplish this? I have all the data files I will be blowing away stored on another machine. Do I just fdisk the drive within Linux and format it? Do I then just copy my current /home dir to that drive? The only thing I am having a tough time grasping is Linux Directory structure and how programs know where to look for stuff.
I have spent many hours getting FC1 set up the way I want it and HATE the idea of starting over.
Fedora does not have NTFS compiled into the kernel. You will need to download and install kernel-NTFS package. You will be able to find the rpm here http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/fedora1.html Take special care in chosing what one you need for your set up. All the directions are there as well. Have fun
On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 19:03, Christopher Ness wrote:
On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 21:44, G Gunther Wallen wrote:
Currently I have XP and TONS of music and pix etc on a 60 gig drive and Linux on a 20 gig. I of course, use Grub to switch between the two. What I want to do is keep the Fedora on the drive it's on since it's 7200 RPM and use the other drive for data files.
Wicked. Take any free space you have on the large drive and turn it into a ext3 file system. Move your files to that space and the smaller drive. Then wipe the remainder of the large drive.
Now I'm not sure if fedora has NTFS compiled into the kernel for read, so you'll have to check your kernel config file for that in /boot but you should be able to mount your windows partition and copy anything important over to the windows partitions (that is if you have space since 60 > 20). I'm pretty sure knoppix does so it may be easier for you to burn the iso then compile a new kernel.
You could turn that brand new hard drive into /home, /var, /tmp and maybe some swap space. Then turn the 20 gig into root (/).
qtparted should repartition disks for you. I just don't think they can be mounted at the time so make a knoppix disk and boot that into RAM.
It could take some dancing, but it's possible, especially if you have access to another computer on the network to temporarily store files.
Of course nothing beats a fresh install. YMMV
Cheers, Chris
What is the easiest way to accomplish this? I have all the data files I will be blowing away stored on another machine. Do I just fdisk the drive within Linux and format it? Do I then just copy my current /home dir to that drive? The only thing I am having a tough time grasping is Linux Directory structure and how programs know where to look for stuff.
I have spent many hours getting FC1 set up the way I want it and HATE the idea of starting over.
I spent the morning blowing away windows XP and re-installing Fedora Core 1.
I am one happy camper! I had no freespace on the 60 gog drive and the 20 gig was almost full so I started from scratch. I got the 20 gig as the boot / and swap partitions and the 60 gig as /home. All is well. I am truly enjoying this distro and this list!
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 02:11, Terry Truitt wrote:
Fedora does not have NTFS compiled into the kernel. You will need to download and install kernel-NTFS package. You will be able to find the rpm here http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/fedora1.html Take special care in chosing what one you need for your set up. All the directions are there as well. Have fun
On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 19:03, Christopher Ness wrote:
On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 21:44, G Gunther Wallen wrote:
Currently I have XP and TONS of music and pix etc on a 60 gig drive and Linux on a 20 gig. I of course, use Grub to switch between the two. What I want to do is keep the Fedora on the drive it's on since it's 7200 RPM and use the other drive for data files.
Wicked. Take any free space you have on the large drive and turn it into a ext3 file system. Move your files to that space and the smaller drive. Then wipe the remainder of the large drive.
Now I'm not sure if fedora has NTFS compiled into the kernel for read, so you'll have to check your kernel config file for that in /boot but you should be able to mount your windows partition and copy anything important over to the windows partitions (that is if you have space since 60 > 20). I'm pretty sure knoppix does so it may be easier for you to burn the iso then compile a new kernel.
You could turn that brand new hard drive into /home, /var, /tmp and maybe some swap space. Then turn the 20 gig into root (/).
qtparted should repartition disks for you. I just don't think they can be mounted at the time so make a knoppix disk and boot that into RAM.
It could take some dancing, but it's possible, especially if you have access to another computer on the network to temporarily store files.
Of course nothing beats a fresh install. YMMV
Cheers, Chris
What is the easiest way to accomplish this? I have all the data files I will be blowing away stored on another machine. Do I just fdisk the drive within Linux and format it? Do I then just copy my current /home dir to that drive? The only thing I am having a tough time grasping is Linux Directory structure and how programs know where to look for stuff.
I have spent many hours getting FC1 set up the way I want it and HATE the idea of starting over.