Well, I was going to ask ...

Tim Wunder tim
Mon May 17 12:02:07 PDT 2004


On 5/7/2004 9:31 AM, I believe that Collins wrote:

> On Fri, 07 May 2004 08:15:48 -0400 Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> My first attempt at installing FC2 Test 3 on my IBM R40 laptop,
>> which had been partitioned for GenToo, couldn't find a place to
>> install and, if I read the message it gave me correctly, wanted to
>> complete repartition and format the hard drive. So I backed off
> 
> 
> It's been too far back to remember the details, but I certainly was
> able to install Fedora as a new extent on an existing setup without
> disturbing the rest. As I remember, I partitioned the drive before
> installing Fedora.
> 

If it's been a while, then it wasn't FC2 Test 3. Test releases tend to 
be, to borrow a phrase, not ready for prime time...
I haven't tried installing FC1 to the laptop. Heck, FC1 is ancient 
history, it's over 6 months old now. But I imagine it'd do fine.

Tim




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