Newbie help part 2

[Tony Dietrich]

On Thursday 27 Jan 2005 18:40, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 10:25 -0800, Charles Malespin wrote:
> > Hi, in response to the previous post.  When I boot from the recovery
> > CD, I dont get any menu or opportunity to pick anything.  It simply
> > states "missing OS" and then doesnt respond to anything except ctrl
> > atl delete.
>
> Hmmm ... possibly a corrupt CD? Does the Linux kernel boot at all?
>
I've had this problem before.  On solution I found was to carry on and shrink 
the WinXP partiton (if required), install FC2, then follow the 'fix' 
instructions in the latter part of the guide to fix the boot problems ... its 
ALWAYS been successful.
Do a printout of the instructions before starting .. easiest way to work in 
this case was from paper.
> > And if my windows partition takes up the whole disk, isnt there a
> > manual way to allocate some space for FC2 during installation?
>
> Honestly, I can't remember but I don't think so. I don't think Anaconda
> (the Fedora installer) can resize NTFS partitions.
>
Anaconda cannot resize partitions, especially NTFS.  Easiest way is to 
download and burn a LiveCd OS like Knoppix, which can run qparted for you.  
Be really really sure you have backed up data and defragged the windows 
partition.  Even then, it may not be sucessful, as Windoze often leaves 
'cannot be moved files' in stupid locations on the disk, like right at the 
end of the partition, so you end up with an unuseable Windows OS.

A better, but more expensive way is to use a native windoze app like Partition 
Magic, but unfortunately, that neither Open Source, nor free.

-- 
Tony Dietrich
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