New Dell Inspiron 9400: From Vista to Fedora/Vista
Rodney Morris
rodamorris at gmail.com
Tue May 8 19:53:25 UTC 2007
Nat Gross wrote:
> And now...partioning...I need your HELP.
> This is what I did so far.
> 1. Used Vista to 'shrink' two partitions.One the real ntfs part where
> Vista is installed, the other a Vista recovery partition.
> 2. Booted the fc6 dvd and am trying to partion it properly, so that
> Grub (or similar program) prompts with boot options.
>
> Here is how anaconda sees the disk (1 disk).
> MB
> /dev/sda1 vfat 55 1 7
> /dev/sda2 ntfs 7240 8 930
> FREE 3000 930 1313
> /dev/sda3 ntfs 45703 1313 7139
> FREE 37349 7139 11901
> /dev/sda4 Extended 2048 11901 12162
> /dev/sda5 vfat 2047 11901 12162
>
> I need a swap partion, bootloader (in addition to the one there)?, and
> main / partition.
>
> I tried letting it do everything automatically, but it complained.
> Please advise.
> Thanks
> nat
>
The problem is that an x386 machine can only have 4 primary
partitions. According to partition table provided, your hard drive
already has 4 primary partitions defined (sda1 - sda4). You'll have
enlarge your extended partition (sda4) to include the free space
before it. You can then install fedora on expanded extended
partition. Unlike their windoze counterparts, fedora /boot, /, and
swap partitions can reside on extended partitions.
Additionally, you may wish to move sda3 so that it borders sda2 to
capture the free space between sda2 and sda3.
Rod
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