yes it does. just boot from the install CD and away you go. Maybe a red hat vet can give more details on this.
nondestructive partitioning can never be 100% guaranteed, but in the real world, you should not find any problems with shoring down the end of your windows partition to make way for linux at the end of the drive. I'd recommend at least 5 gigs for linux, but really it can be as big as you like. ah! remember to defrag your windows partition before you do this, and if poss, leave a few MB of free space between windows and linux, although it's a toss up whether this is a good or bad idea, it keeps windows from reaching over the partitions and buggering up any linux data, which is something you occasionally hear about. Still, i think maybe the fact of the freespace can confuse the whole hda1 hdb3 layout of the partition numbering scheme, i don't know...
also, i'd advise make three linux partitions while installing red hat. one of them is /, one is /home and one is the swap, which should be at the end of the drive if possible to make for slightly faster access times.
[ November 20, 2002: Message edited by: Calum: Linux Commando ]
