Dual Booting

uncholowapo · 04-13-2008, 08:16 PM

I want to dual boot my Toshiba Satalite with Windows Vista and Fedora 9 when it comes out. Can someone give me a guide on how to partition my HDD and how to install Fedora on that partition? please and thank you.

AceofSpades19 · 04-13-2008, 08:27 PM

1. Defrag the harddrive
2. get the gparted livecd and make the windows parition smaller
3. Install linux in the free space

uncholowapo · 04-13-2008, 09:16 PM

will that erase my files that I have on the Windows partition?

AceofSpades19 · 04-13-2008, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by uncholowapo

will that erase my files that I have on the Windows partition?

if you do it correctly it shouldn't

rich_c · 04-13-2008, 09:32 PM

With Vista, I believe it's better/required to use the built in disk management tool for shrinking the Windows partition. Then you can use Gparted to further divide up what's left and format as required.