Fedora Core 3 installation

I am working on installation Fedora Core 3.

In my WinXP PC I have (due to history of drive replacements, re-install of
operating system, etc., 2 physical hard drives, one labeled as "f" in My
Computer and one partitioned into "d" and "e". The operating system and all
programs are on "f".

Is there a way to force the machine to relabel "f" as "c"? I need to do
this in order to facilitate a Linux installation on my machine and
subsequently have both operating systems available (choose at boot time).
The Linux installation software appears to look for a "c" drive but of
course doesn't find it, then terminates the execution of the install
program. Or, alternatively, is there a way for the installation software to
be configured differently (I did not see any user-intiated choice)?

My multislot flash-memory-card reader has separate letters for each slot,
one of which is "c". I unplugged the reader and rebooted the machine, but
"c" was NOT reassigned to the "f" hard disk.

Dave





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Churchill, Dave wrote:
> I am working on installation Fedora Core 3.
>
> In my WinXP PC I have (due to history of drive replacements, re-install of
> operating system, etc., 2 physical hard drives, one labeled as "f" in My
> Computer and one partitioned into "d" and "e". The operating system and all
> programs are on "f".
>
> Is there a way to force the machine to relabel "f" as "c"? I need to do
> this in order to facilitate a Linux installation on my machine and
> subsequently have both operating systems available (choose at boot time).
> The Linux installation software appears to look for a "c" drive but of
> course doesn't find it, then terminates the execution of the install
> program. Or, alternatively, is there a way for the installation software to
> be configured differently (I did not see any user-intiated choice)?
>
> My multislot flash-memory-card reader has separate letters for each slot,
> one of which is "c". I unplugged the reader and rebooted the machine, but
> "c" was NOT reassigned to the "f" hard disk.
>
> Dave
>

"C" and "F" doesn't mean anything when installing a Linux-based OS.
That's just the names Windows assign.
The HDDs will be called something like hda, hdb, sda, etc. in Linux. FC3
should detect all installed partitions and you have to decide which one
to format into a Linux FS. (Check file system and/or used space to see
what is an appropriate partition.)
You could prepare your installation by using sysresccd.org. Great tool
for resizing and setting up partitions. (Also to resize NTFS)

- Ketil

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