Yea, John's totally right on that. I know I've avoided lots of problems by just keeping the space I want to use completely unformatted & let Linux format it during the install. It's not the best or fanciest way to do it, but simple isn't a bad way to go sometimes. :)
<br><br>hope that helps,<br>--miguel<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/27/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John E. Kreznar</b> <<a href="mailto:jek@ininx.com">jek@ininx.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>qun li <<a href="mailto:liquncc@yahoo.com">liquncc@yahoo.com</a>> writes:<br><br>> I have a HP a6200n that comes with vista. I used Vista utility to<br>> create a partition L on C drive and formatted it in NTFS.
<br><br>NTFS is not useful for a Linux partition. The Linux installation<br>procedure should offer an opportunity to reformat it with, for<br>example, the ext2 file system. Do that.<br><br>> When I try to install Fedora 7 it would not recognize the L drive
<br>> and insist on installing on the C drive.<br><br>If L is a partition, it will not show up as a drive. Use fdisk or<br>something (probably also available during the Linux installation<br>procedure) to confirm the partitions are as you intend, then tell it
<br>to install on the appropriate partition(s).<br><br>- --<br> John E. Kreznar <a href="mailto:jek@ininx.com">jek@ininx.com</a> 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13<br> Imagine there's no countries / to kill or die for --John Lennon, 1971
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