Re: How to install Redhat 9 ?

[NfoCipher <nfocipher chickenware com>]

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 23:56, yfs us wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>      I'm new to Redhat and I would like to find out
> which is the best way to install it. I had a Pentium 4
> and my current OS is Win XP. My file system is NTFS
> and I would like to know which file system that Redhat
> used ? 
ext3

>      How do I create a Linux file system ?
You do that while installing.

>  Can I used
> Partition Magic 8.0 ?
You could.

>  I already partition my Hard Disk
> and created a FAT32 file system. Can I convert it to
> Linux file system ?
You would delete the fat32 and create the ext3 at install time.

>  Which is the best File system ? Is
> it ext2 or ext3 or any other ? 
ext3

> I want to make it dual
> boot and can I used LILO for the Boot manager ?
LILO works, grub is better.

>  Can I
> set my bios to boot from the Redhat partiton ?
A different drive, yes, a different partition - no.

The easiest thing to do is spend the 50 bucks on another hard drive.
Keep your xp hard drive as is and make the new hard drive dedicated
to linux.

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