[uzername]

Hi folks...

I just wanted to find out something about permanently installing Linux (Ubutntu) onto one of my harddrives....I have two HHDs on my PC, one (40GB-fully partitioned) which only has my Windows XP Professional, games and my apps installed on it. I have another 80GB that I use for my files (documents, mp3s, etc...). The secondary HDD has 2 partitions (20GB and 60GB) on it and I use one partition for work/study and the other for personal stuff.

Now for my question(s)

A) Is it possible to create a new partition on the 40GB hard drive without having to format it & re-install EVERYTHING?

B) If I install Linux on anyone of my other partitions (on my other harddrive), will I still be able to access my documents and music?

---I ask this because I tried two live CDs (Knoppix and Morphix), and in Knoppix my harddrives were right there on the desktop, but when I tried Morphix I couldn't seem to locate them :

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

U_N

Edited by uzername, 03 September 2005 - 04:20 AM.

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Welcome to Geeks To Go
Yes it can noraly be done when installing with out affecting what you allreay have. If you don't feal save doing that, you can get Paritition Magic which is a very good program to do it with a grafical interface.

You first partiton on you first hard drive will show as /dev/hda1 and the second partition /dev/hda2 and so on unless you have a logical partition in which you might have a /dev/hda4 for your second partition. On your second hard drive the first partition will be /dev/hdb1. You might alreay know this but is might be usefull for those that do not.

Edited by Michael Buckley, 05 September 2005 - 05:41 AM.

[Michael]

Welcome to Geeks To Go
Yes it can noraly be done when installing with out affecting what you allreay have. If you don't feal save doing that, you can get Paritition Magic which is a very good program to do it with a grafical interface.

You first partiton on you first hard drive will show as /dev/hda1 and the second partition /dev/hda2 and so on unless you have a logical partition in which you might have a /dev/hda4 for your second partition. On your second hard drive the first partition will be /dev/hdb1. You might alreay know this but is might be usefull for those that do not.

Edited by Michael Buckley, 05 September 2005 - 05:41 AM.