Installing Frdora 14

[RICHARD C & BARBARA DEVRIES]

I have a new system with three identical hard drives. One with windows Xp pro, 
one with my data and one initialized but not formatted for Fedora 14.
When I try to install Fedora from a bootable CD Fedora lists all drives with the 
same part number and I can't tell the difference. How can I be sure that the 
dirve I pick to 

format for Fedora is the right one?

[RICHARD C & BARBARA DEVRIES]

Yeah. your right. The more I think about it the more I'll probably do it.




________________________________
From: William Stock <wstock(a)fuse.net&gt;
To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Thu, December 30, 2010 2:00:32 PM
Subject: Re: Installing Frdora 14

On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 10:49 -0800, RICHARD C & BARBARA DEVRIES wrote:
>  Thanks. I thought of that myself but I first wanted to make sure
> there
>  wasn't an better way 
There might be a better way, but it takes only one slipup and your data
and/or XP is gone.  You don't want to take the chance!
>  
>   


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[Craig White]

Yeah, good instincts because that's a really poor idea in terms of boot
records anyway. If you move drives in/out your drive order will change
and mess up your booting each time you add/remove drives and start up
again.

Boot into Windows again and remove any partitions on the one drive that
you have reserved for Fedora so it is the only that will show completely
available. Normal 'druid' (the installation tool for partitioning
drives) behavior is not to erase any existing partitions so if you have
a hard drive with no partitions at all, it will be obvious which drive
it is.

Craig

On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 10:49 -0800, RICHARD C & BARBARA DEVRIES wrote:
>  Thanks. I thought of that myself but I first wanted to make sure
> there
>  wasn't an better way
>  
>  
>  
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>  From: William Stock <wstock(a)fuse.net&gt;
>  To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  Sent: Thu, December 30, 2010 1:09:29 PM
>  Subject: Re: Installing Frdora 14
>  
>  On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 08:46 -0800, RICHARD C & BARBARA DEVRIES wrote:
>  > I have a new system with three identical hard drives. One with
>  windows
>  > Xp pro, one with my data and one initialized but not formatted for
>  > Fedora 14.
>  > When I try to install Fedora from a bootable CD Fedora lists all
>  > drives with the same part number and I can't tell the difference.
>  How
>  > can I be sure that the dirve I pick to 
>  > format for Fedora is the right one?
>  
>  Even with different drives I have trouble - got to write everything
>  down
>  first.  With identical drives I'd unplug the ones I want untouched
>  until
>  after I got F14 installed.  Then I'd plug them back in and adjust
>  whatever needed to be adjusted.
>  
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[William Stock]

On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 10:49 -0800, RICHARD C & BARBARA DEVRIES wrote:
>  Thanks. I thought of that myself but I first wanted to make sure
> there
>  wasn't an better way 
There might be a better way, but it takes only one slipup and your data
and/or XP is gone.  You don't want to take the chance!
>  
>

[RICHARD C & BARBARA DEVRIES]

Thanks. I thought of that myself but I first wanted to make sure there wasn't an 
better way




________________________________
From: William Stock <wstock(a)fuse.net&gt;
To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Thu, December 30, 2010 1:09:29 PM
Subject: Re: Installing Frdora 14

On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 08:46 -0800, RICHARD C & BARBARA DEVRIES wrote:
>  I have a new system with three identical hard drives. One with
> windows
>  Xp pro, one with my data and one initialized but not formatted for
>  Fedora 14.
>  When I try to install Fedora from a bootable CD Fedora lists all
>  drives with the same part number and I can't tell the difference. How
>  can I be sure that the dirve I pick to 
>  format for Fedora is the right one? 
Even with different drives I have trouble - got to write everything down
first.  With identical drives I'd unplug the ones I want untouched until
after I got F14 installed.  Then I'd plug them back in and adjust
whatever needed to be adjusted.


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[William Stock]

On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 08:46 -0800, RICHARD C & BARBARA DEVRIES wrote:
>  I have a new system with three identical hard drives. One with
> windows
>  Xp pro, one with my data and one initialized but not formatted for
>  Fedora 14.
>  When I try to install Fedora from a bootable CD Fedora lists all
>  drives with the same part number and I can't tell the difference. How
>  can I be sure that the dirve I pick to 
>  format for Fedora is the right one? 
Even with different drives I have trouble - got to write everything down
first.  With identical drives I'd unplug the ones I want untouched until
after I got F14 installed.  Then I'd plug them back in and adjust
whatever needed to be adjusted.