New F8 fan- certain queries before installation

[anup4u]

Hi All,

I have the following system configuration:

Intel P4 processor 2.4Ghz
80 Gb HD, 256 DDR SDRAM.

Windows XP is installed on D drive. C and E drive are almost empty. Each of 18 Gb partition.


I want to install Fedora 8. Does my config suport that. Also can i play music and video on F8.


Thanks for your time and reply.


Anup saurav

[s.v.g.]

hmm i think the partitions are usable, although i've not seen a C drive being empty before - don't know if overwriting this will break XP (someone else can clarify this). in any case you can use the E drive to install linux to. 18GB is plenty, apart from if you're going to have a crapload of music/video files on there.

as to whether fedora can play music and video: a big resounding yes (including DVD's) although there are a multitude of files that you'll have to install before it works. search for these on google/this forum once you've got fedora running.

[tho.mei]

Hallo anup4u

first of all, forget the MS-DOS drive letters! It will tell you nothing abut how you HD-layout relay looks. Learn to think in the Linux deice names. I name the drives in Windows with this names. Because
c:\ can move to be d:\ or something else. The Linux-names do never change until you change the

Now I will guess how you HD looks:

/dev/sda1 NTFS c:\
/dev/sda2 NTFS d:\ Windowz XP
/dev/sda3 NTFS e:\

It id looks like this you can only use /dev/sda3 to install Linux. Because if you delete /dev/sda1 Window$ will never ever start again. You would need to install it again.

If there is enough space on /dev/sda3 you can delete it. You will need min. 15GB. You would need to crate a /dev/sda3 ext3 partition with the size of min 14 GB. Mount in as / . Then you will need a swap partition. /dev/sda4 swap min. the size of your RAM. Max. the size of 1GB.
You HD would look like:

/dev/sda1 NTFS
/dev/sda2 NTFS
/dev/sda3 ext3 /
/dev/sda4 swap swap

The installer on any Fedora-CD will offer you to install a "costum layout". Choose this option. Then you will be able to do all in confabel grafic mode.

Marry x-mas

[ryptyde]

I would suggest adding more RAM if possible as it will make your Fedora experience more of a pleasure than a pain. About 512MB of RAM will do nicely and the only other obstacle may be your "video card" and "wireless".

[40esp]

Just make a partition at the end of your table, or delete the one you wanted to use and re-format it using the costom layout option in the partition editor.