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The part of the installation thats going to determine where Linux resides in relation to windows is the partitioning. Partitioning is a really simple concept really, it deals with sections of your hard drive, called partitions. For example I have an 80gigabyte hard drive with 3 partitions on it. One has 14 gigs, one has 25 gigs, and the other has the rest, about 40 gigs. Your hard drive will need a partition for windows, and one for linux. Do you know how your hard drive is partitioned? If you have 2 partitions, which might show up as a C drive and D drive on windows, your in luck, just clear everything off the D drive and put what you need on the C drive, and you should be able to easily format the D drive and install Linux onto it. If your whole hard disk in one partition, you will have to shorten that partition and make room for another. There's plenty of software available that can do that for you, partition magic is a popular one. Either way, its a good idea to *Backup everything you can't afford to lose*. Its safe to do it that way. I'm saying it again, *Backup everything you can't afford to lose*, I've known people who didn't and wished they had. Once you have a partition for windows, and a partition for linux, disk druid will be able to do it all for you. But it might be a good thing to read up a bit on the basics of Linux partitioning before you begin with redhat. With Mandrake its even easier though, partitioning is a cakewalk that even a computer illiterate could easily do.
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