Fedora Core 2

[biglish]

I have a question. Me being a newbie to linux I was wondering about the fedora core project. I don't have linux on my computer yet, but I did download the .iso file for knoppix and have been messing around with it so that I don't have to partion my hard drive. My question is do I have to partion my hard drive to use Fedora or can I just run it off a disk? Also if I buy an external hard drive can I do a dual boot like that and have Fedora on the external? Thanks

[white scorpion]

normally fedora is meant to be installed, but of course like any other distro you could make your own "live-cd" (although you'd have to install it first)

as for the extern drive.
it should be possible if your computer is able to boot from that drive. (this is hardware / bios dependent) but you should use a boot floppy for fedora then, and don't install grub or lilo on your internal hdd.