On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 01:23 +0300, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
Hi Randall Schulz !
Randall wrote:
The partition structure is independent of the type of file system created on those partitions. I.e., it is not necessary to repartition a drive (that's already partitioned) in order to install Linux.
It may be unnecessary to repartition on Linux-ready system, than already has ext partitions.
On typical Home Windows systems, when there is one single big 200 GB hard drive and 200 GB NTFS partition on it, like 99% of all world's Home PCs those days shipped, you _can not_ install a Linux on such a typical system without repartitioning it first.
Have you worked with _typical_ Windows systems ever ?
Yes, probably before you knew what one was. There is a resize function within the install process to resize the single partition without having to reload windows and then linux. That is it's purpose, to give you a partition to install on. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org