Upgrading from red hat 8 and using a very large hard disk

[Kam Leo]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:29:54 +0000, Larry Cotton <larry.cotton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have a couple of initial qustions.
> 
> I'm currently using red hat 8, but wish to use upgrade to use fedora
> core 2. I have downloaded the iso disks.
> 
> 1) Could anyone tell me :
> a) how I go about doing this
> b) whether I can install fedora core without loosing the data and os
> set up I currenlty have
> c)what the best way of backing up my current set up is before doing
> the new installation
> 
> 2) I've installed fedora core 2 on another machine which currently has
> a 10G scsi drive on it. I am hoping to add a very large IDE (200 -
> 400G) drive to this machine. Does anyone know of any problems I have
> to look out for when using fedora with such as large disk ? Does
> anyone have any tips about how I might go about installing fedora with
> such a set up ?

Fedora has no problem with drives of that size; however, make certain
your computer's BIOS supports drives that large.  You may need a BIOS
upgrade.

> 
> Cheers
> Larry
>