This's my 1st time on linux so dont mind if I ask some dumb ques . After wandering around I decided to go w/ FC4 on my 80GB SATA drive. The drive is partitioned into 3 FAT32 volumes, 19.5/28.4/28.3 named G,H,I (due to a previous 2-drive config). All of them contain ccritical data so i'd not like to format any of them (since there's not enoug space left to backup). The questions are:
- Is blank space REALLY required in installing linux (say FC4)
- does the partitions names affect anything?
- Is there chance of missing data from corrupted installing?
- btw will my "ADMtek AN983 10/100 PCI Adapter" be recognized ok? (i cant go online w/out it)
FC4 and XP on one hard drive
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Hi all,
This's my 1st time on linux so dont mind if I ask some dumb ques
. After wandering around I decided to go w/ FC4 on my 80GB SATA drive. The drive is partitioned into 3 FAT32 volumes, 19.5/28.4/28.3 named G,H,I (due to a previous 2-drive config). All of them contain ccritical data so i'd not like to format any of them (since there's not enoug space left to backup). The questions are:
- Is blank space REALLY required in installing linux (say FC4)
- does the partitions names affect anything?
- Is there chance of missing data from corrupted installing?
- btw will my "ADMtek AN983 10/100 PCI Adapter" be recognized ok? (i cant go online w/out it)
Thank you all.