Installing Fedora alongside WinXP and openSUSE

glock356 · 09-13-2011, 12:11 PM

Hello!

I am currently using openSUSE on dual boot with winXP and i am planning to migrate on Fedora(v. 14 or 15, i have both CD-s)
But before completely replace SUSE with Fedora i want to try it.
It is possible to install Fedora(14 or 15, please tell mi about both version) alongside my existing OS-es, to run on tripple boot - WinXP, SUSE and Fedora?
I have two disks - 200 GB with win installed with 56 GB free space and 160 GB entirely used for SUSE.

There is partition table of my disks

Code:

linux-44fg:~ # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders, total 390721968 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9b149b14

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *          63    74878964    37439451    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2        74878968   390716864   157918948+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5        74879031   390716864   157918917    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd00ad00a

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1            2048      321535      159744   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2          321536   312580095   156129280   8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/mapper/system-home: 126.1 GB, 126089166848 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15329 cylinders, total 246267904 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/system-home doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/mapper/system-root: 32.2 GB, 32212254720 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3916 cylinders, total 62914560 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/system-root doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/mapper/system-swap: 1568 MB, 1568669696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 190 cylinders, total 3063808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/system-swap doesn't contain a valid partition table
linux-44fg:~ #

yancek · 09-13-2011, 12:36 PM

You could shrink sda5, the logical partition with windows on it and then create another logical partition withing your Extended partition (sda2) on which to put Fedora. I don't know if xp has tools that will do this. If not, you can download Parted Magic or GParted as an iso, burn it to a CD and boot with it.

Never used LVM so I don't know what you would need to do to install on the second disk. Shrink sdb2 I expect.