Partition my drive and installing Fedora Core 6

[wrs388]

I'm confused with partitioning my drive using Fedora Core 6. Does it use ex3, or Linux swap? Is it ok to install Fedore Core 6 using partition magic? I read all the documents on how to install Fedore Core 6, but I'm still some what confused.
Oh I already partitioned my drive to Linux ex3, so once I install Fedora Core will it be able to recognize that drive?

[saikee]

You need a minimum of one partition for Linux and one for swap.

If you use Partition Magic it may format it too in Ext3.

Yes Fedora will recognise it and all you need is the highlight the partition, edit it, use it to mount the root of Fedora or "/" and opt for keeping the partition as it has already beend formatted.

Instruction written for Red Hat or Fedora will ask you to partition the disk into two main partitions; /boot and all the rest in a LVM. For a newbie you can ignore it as LVM gives you more trouble than functionalities if you don't know how to use it.

You will find a single partition installation, apart from swap which is always on its own partition, is easier to maintain, to boot, to diagnose and to migrate.

[michaelk]

By default Fedora 6 creates 2 partitions, A /boot and a LVM partition which contains the / and swap partitions. LVM allows one for example to add additional space to your /home without repartitioning or add space from additional drive. Lots of info about LVM on the web.

You can still use the conventional method by creating individual partitions, the default being /boot, /, and swap. Instead of creating partitions with PM I would just leave the space as unallocated and let the installer create the partitions for you.

I suggest reading the installation guide.
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/fc6/en/