Can't bring up Fedora Core 6

Michael Satterwhite michael at weblore.com
Sat Nov 25 17:03:48 UTC 2006


Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 14:17 -0800, Ivan Kronkvist wrote:
>>>> The only partition I kept from my old system was
>>> the /windows partition
>>>> - I don't want to have to restore Win2K just
>>> because I changed linux
>>>> system - and I do sometimes have to run windows
>>> for work.
>>>>
>>> One question when you used the gui partitioning tool
>>> what did you say to
>>> do with the partition mounted as /windows?
>> I removed it. I removed all existing partitions and
>> went with the default Fedora partitioning with a
>> logical volume which holds the swap and / and a
>> physical partition that holds /boot.
> I guess I am prejudiced but I never, never, never use the default
> partitioning. Certainly not if you want to retain a partition from your
> old system

Actually, I agree with you on this. I've used several distros, and I've
yet to have a problem caused by the simple partitioning I do. I'm not
saying this *COULDN'T* be the first, but I'd be surprised.




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