F9 installation

[ksh shrm]

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:

> On 11/06/2008 01:44 PM, Germán Racca wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all:
>>
>> I want to install Fedora 9 in a computer that already has Fedora 8,
>> but in a seprate place, just to have 2 different versions in one computer.
>> I new that in order to do it, I will have to create or resize a partition.
>> Well, when I run the installation DVD for Fedora 9 I get the following
>> screen:
>>
>> Drive /dev/sda (114471 MB) (Model: ATA SAMSUNG HD120IJ)
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> sda2
>> 114274 MB
>> ____________________________________________________________
>>
>>   DEVICE            MOUNT POINT/VOLUME    TYPE    SIZE (MB)
>>
>> LVM Volume Groups
>>  VolGroup00
>>             114272
>>    LogVol00
>>  ext3         113216
>>    LogVol01
>>  swap           1024
>>
>> Hard Drives
>>  /dev/sda
>>    /dev/sda1
>> ext3            196
>>    /dev/sda2                      VolGroup00              LVM PV
>> 114275
>>
>> I have tried to do a lot of thing but no success. How could I get a space
>> of approximately 30 GB to install another Linux, in my case Fedora 9?
>>
> I think Aldo gave you a decent answer. You are stuck with LVM, but you
> still should be able to set up for a dual boot.
> Problem 1 is /dev/sda1 is set up as your /boot partition. You will probably
> need to share this which means some manual editing of /boot/grub/grub.conf.
> Resizing of an LVM logical partition can be accomplished via the
> system-config-lvm graphical LVM utility. Or you can use the nonm-graphical
> commands, such as resize2fs and lvm.
>
> However possibly a better way might be to use a virtual machine, such as
> virtual box, and install Fedora 9 in virtualbox.
>
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