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it will have drivers for most of your hardware but modems are always a problem. but there are drivers for certain hardware out there. check out the red hat website to see if all your stuff is compatible.

make sure you read up on bootloaders before you even try to install it. and the win xp install disk is a must incase you mess it up like everyone always does :D

i have killed my bootloader on more then a few occasions. B)

ok, ive downloaded the first 2 CD's of Red Hat Linux from the site that 4play gave. i was wondering what sort file system it used and how big it was installed, ive got a empty 10 gig partition, will that be enough? thanks!

19 gigs is more then enough

it uses ext2, ext3, reisfer and a few other you can choose from.

http://www.tldp.org/ go there and read all the guides about installation and bootloaders. ;)

thnx for that, but where did i mentain 19gig!

oppps wrong key :unsure:

10 gigs is easily enough. I only use 5 gigs for mine and have a large fat32 partition i use to share media between my windows and linux os's

my other two partitions are ntfs, will it be able to read them?

you will have to edit your /etc/fstab file so you can read them, but under no circumstance try to write to them it will damage them.

like i said suse 9.0 is planning to support writing to ntfs but that aint out for a bit yet :(

thanks 4play, uve been a really really really big help!

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Originally posted by 4play@9 October 2003 - 11:02
you will have to edit your /etc/fstab file so you can read them, but under no circumstance try to write to them it will damage them.

like i said suse 9.0 is planning to support writing to ntfs but that aint out for a bit yet :(

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Is this redhat were talking about? :huh:

If so youll need ntfs kernel module support. Get it here.

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html

By the way dont worry about write support, write support can not be compiled in any ntfs kernel module yet.

If you dont want to get it from the link of above, you could always recompile your kernel (my favorite option) ;)

yes it was red hat