On 11/04/06, Ali Helmy <<a href="mailto:alihelmy@gmail.com">alihelmy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div style="direction: ltr;">On 11/04/06, Paul Howarth <<a href="mailto:paul@city-fan.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> paul@city-fan.org</a>> wrote:</div><div style="direction: ltr;"><div></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Gordon Messmer wrote: > Christian Nolte wrote: >> >> There exists a nice live-cd including GParted, a graphical partition >> manager which is capable of resizing your NTFS partitions: >> >> <a href="http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html</a> > > And that might even be useful, if someone can point to a nice > vmlinuz/initrd combo that can be loaded with grub. You can pull one from the boot.iso file: <a href="http://www.city-fan.org/tips/BootInstallerFromHardDisk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.city-fan.org/tips/BootInstallerFromHardDisk </a> Paul. -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> </blockquote></div><div style="direction: ltr;"> </div></div><div style="direction: ltr;"> The problem that you're going to run in to is that Fedora does not include a tool to resize NTFS partitions, so before you can install Fedora, you need to find a way to free space on your drive. </div><div style="direction: ltr;">Well, thanks guys, but I have two HDDs... so I plan to keep one with the files on, and the other HDD to be formatted during installation. Then, later after installation completes, I'll format the first HDD an add it to the LV... I'll probably go ahead with the proc tonight, wish me luck :) I'll keep you updated</div><div style="direction: ltr;"> -- Cheers, A. Helmy ================== One Life... LIVE It ================== </div></blockquote></div> In the web-page supplied (which is VERY good, by the way) it says: Finally to enable your Linux installer in GRUB's menu, edit the file <tt style="font-style: italic;" class="docutils literal">F:\boot\grub\menu.lst</tt> adding a paragraph similar to this one: <pre class="literal-block">title My Linux installer of choice kernel (hd0,0)/boot/your_linux_kernel_filename distribution_specific_options initrd (hd0,0)/boot/your_ramdisk_filename </pre>and the contents of the isolinux.cfg file are: <pre>default linux prompt 1 timeout 600 display boot.msg F1 boot.msg F2 options.msg F3 general.msg F4 param.msg F5 rescue.msg label linux kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img label text kernel vmlinuz append initrd= initrd.img text label ks kernel vmlinuz append ks initrd=initrd.img label local localboot 1 label memtest86 kernel memtest append -</pre> So, according to that, what should the distro specific options look like? <pre class="literal-block">title My Linux installer of choice kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz what_do_i_write_here? initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img </pre> -- Cheers, A. Helmy ================== One Life... LIVE It ==================