Getting Fedora to work

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Tim wrote:
>
>> ulrich:
>>>> I think it's a good idea to have the systems XP und FC on different
>>>> drives.
>>
>> Timothy Murphy:
>>> Why?
>>> What difference does it make?
>>
>[...]
>
> In my view it was silly advice,
> since it might lead a Linux newbie to suppose that there is some advantage
> in getting a second disk,
> which in my opinion is completely unnecessary.
>
> There are enough problems installing Fedora
> without inventing imaginary ones.

The main reason I see for getting a second drive for Linux is so that you 
don't have to repartition an already-partitioned Win drive.  No need to 
shrink partitions to recover space that is already allocated, no need to 
run the risk of messing up a partition table.  I don't think there's any 
operational advantage, but it can make setup easier rather than harder.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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