SOme newbie Questions!!

[Frank_Jr]

Hi guys,

I am Planing on getting Red hat linux to install on my second hard
drive . Its been about 3 years since ive messed with linux at all , so basicly i am a newbie.

What i have is:
Primary hard Drive: a 60 gig hard drive which windows xp is installed on.

Secondary(slave) 20 gig hard drive formatted right now NTFS, nothing on it.

I wish to install RH8.0 on the secondary hd

Prior to installing rh should i Unpartion the seconday HD or will REd Hat do this for me..?

IS there anything else i need to know about this configuration that might be helpful?

I want to learn linux, so while i am learning i have to keep windows as the primary op system (for my wife and kids to use).
I Tried Caldera linux a few years ago and liked the challenge of it. but got tired of tring to get some hardware i had then to work with it and gave up..

I am ready to try again , so any advice would be most appricated!

Thanks
Frank

[Eggs]

Linux calls your primary slave (as I understand it that is where the drive that linux is to be installed on is) hdb, so when you choose how to partition make sure its on hdb Red hat should partition the drive just fine, if you don't feel like setting up the partitions manually (which can be difficult at first because its much different than windows) RH can do it automaticly.

Looking at your specs you probably won't have a problem with anything. Be sure to look at the sticky at the top of the forum posted by Warren that has a RH8 guide in it. It will give you good advice to get your dvd drive and mp3's working

[Gandalf_Grey_]

I would partition in windows, no reason, redhat 8 doesn't support NTFS resizing (mandrake 9.1 is the only distro as of right now I am pretty sure) but you are just copmletely getting rid of the NTFS partition so the redhat install partition would do it for you. It is just a matter of personal preferance when it comes down to a case like this.

[Frank_Jr]

I appricate the quick responses guys.. Thanks

I will check out the Sticky right now..
The more i read the more i want to get linux on my machine and start learnin it again..Maybe i'll get to the point where i'll uninstall XP and go with Linux completly!!

Thanks Again