I have 2 seperate HD's, both NTFS. D drive has lots of data etc on it, how would I install linux to D drive?
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Jump to PostI don't know of a distro that will install to/run from a NTFS partition.
Normally I would use a program like Partition Magic to shrink my D drive to how much I need and leave the remainder as unpartitioned space so that Linux can install there.
For example, …
Jump to PostThen you would go into fdisk and remove the d: entirely, then run your install and have it use your newly found free space. You need to be very careful about not whacking your c: or MBR
You might want to nose around The Linux Documentation Project for info …
Jump to PostHello Gink,
Pleasure talking to you on the IRC by the way.
Windoze sees hard drives as a C: and a D: and so forth. They can be on the same physical disk (two partitions on the same disk), or can be different disks all together. They are …
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