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Chapter 2: Getting Ready for Red Hat Linux
Overview
In This Chapter
Preparing to install Red Hat Linux
Determining whether your Windows partition is FAT or NTFS
Defragmenting your hard drive
Resizing Windows 9x/Me FAT partitions
Resizing Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP NTFS partitions
All major personal computer (PC) manufacturers now install Microsoft Windows on their machines by default. However, you can still purchase computers without an operating system via mail-order or from local, nonbrand stores.What does that mean? Basically, you can skip this chapter if you have a computer with no preinstalled operating system. You can also skip this chapter if you have a Windows computer and are willing to reformat your hard disk, permanently erasing its contents. You can also skip this chapter if your Windows computer includes a secondary partition on which you can install Linux.TipA partition is a portion of a disk drive used to organize files and directories. For example, the famous Windows C: drive is installed on its own partition. A partition can use all or part of a disk. Most systems use one large partition that hogs up an entire hard drive.Otherwise, you have to make accommodations so that Red Hat Linux can live alongside your existing Windows partition. Because Linux is an easygoing fellow who gets along well with others, you can install it on the same hard drive with Windows. This type of configuration is a called a dual boot system: You choose which operating system to use when you power up, or boot, your computer.This chapter shows you how to prepare your hard drive so that Linux and Windows can live in harmony. It will be a love-fest.
