[bigdoggy]

Hi

I have just set up a dual booting system with vista and fedora 8, using easyBCD as the boot loader as I GRUB locate and find vista. Anyway, there are a couple of questions I have:
1) I had used a Fedora 7 distro previously and did a fresh install of Fedora 8, I had a dvd from uni with some additonal dotfiles which gave Fedora additional features similar to the school machines, now when I ran the dvd with F7, they worked, but with F8 they dont...any ideas?
2)I partitioned my drive for Fedora (I have a 250GB hd, partitoned 15GB for F7) but wondered if this can be increased as I think I want to use F8 more so need more hd space for files., program etc.
3)Also when I log in as root there is an icon on my desktop called 'os' where I can view my files from my c drive on vista, how is that/why?
4)Is it a good idea to create another partition for saving important stuff on? If so how would I access it from my OS?


As always, thanks for everyones help :-)

[MorphiusFaydal]

bigdoggy, on 5 Mar, 2008 - 06:49 PM, said:

Hi

I have just set up a dual booting system with vista and fedora 8, using easyBCD as the boot loader as I GRUB locate and find vista. Anyway, there are a couple of questions I have:
1) I had used a Fedora 7 distro previously and did a fresh install of Fedora 8, I had a dvd from uni with some additonal dotfiles which gave Fedora additional features similar to the school machines, now when I ran the dvd with F7, they worked, but with F8 they dont...any ideas?
2)I partitioned my drive for Fedora (I have a 250GB hd, partitoned 15GB for F7) but wondered if this can be increased as I think I want to use F8 more so need more hd space for files., program etc.
3)Also when I log in as root there is an icon on my desktop called 'os' where I can view my files from my c drive on vista, how is that/why?
4)Is it a good idea to create another partition for saving important stuff on? If so how would I access it from my OS?


As always, thanks for everyones help :-)

1) Get a disk updated for Fedora 8. Or let us know what the errors are, so we can try and fix them.

2) Looking to a program called "gparted".

3) You can thank the beauty of GNOME, DBUS, HAL, and automount.

4) Depends on your personal policies. If your hard drive gets shafted, you're still losing the files. I would get a second hard drive, and mount it at /home. Then you would just set it up in /etc/fstab Or, if it's a clean install, tell it that you want that hard drive to function as /home.