how not to initialize HD

[Tom H]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On Sat July 31 2010, JB wrote:
> /dev/sda1   *           1        4462    35840983+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2            4463        4717     2048287+   e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)
> /dev/sda3            4718       12162    59793409    5  Extended
> Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/sda5            4718        5961     9989120   83  Linux
> /dev/sda6            5962        8094    17133291   83  Linux
> /dev/sda7           11919       12162     1951744   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda8            8095       11918    30716248+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
>> Note that fdisk shows Extended partition as sda4, but cfdisk skips it. It
>> is a matter of formatting the displays by both. The layouts were done by
>> these Linux utilities.
>
> /dev/sda5 is / and /dev/sda6 is /home. Can I just delete sda3 & sda5 without
> touching /home on sda6? or will deleting sda3 remove everything... If so,
> that wouldn't both me that much.
> What i really want to end up with is XP on /dev/sda1 and Fedora on SOMETHING..

You can delete sda5 and use it as your Fedora / but, unless you
customize the Live CD install, you will have to have a /boot too.