Fedora 18 & Widows 7 Dual Boot Installation Issues...

ahsanghalib · 03-23-2013, 02:05 AM

Hi, I am trying to install fedora 18 with windows 7 in a dual boot mode. I have free space of 75gb on my hdd but it generates the errors when i try to install on that free space. Pics attached for reference. Please guide.

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/ecqv36zhj0...2010_11_20.png

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John VV · 03-25-2013, 02:06 PM

you might want to read the fedora 18 install guide
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/...ide/index.html

dual booting with windows is talked about

if you need a video
a youtub
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRrfCe79SjU

Ztcoracat · 04-15-2013, 04:57 PM

Hi:

Before I could install Fedora I had to shrink my Win's 7 partition first.
I shrunk the Windows partition to about 1/2 it's size.

When it came time to partitions and write to disk:
I manually created the necessary partitions for the Fedora install and the installation was successful.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...me-shrink.html

You could use a LIVE version of G-parted to manipulate all of the partitions that you currently have but that's up to you. I prefer to use what the Fedora installer and partition manager offers.

Ztcoracat · 04-15-2013, 05:06 PM

Just an example of my partitions to help you see what I mean

Code:

dev/sda *1 Windows 7 NTFS ..Size
dev/sda Windows 7 Recovery NTFS...Size
dev/sda 3 Fedora / ext3 journaling file system 20MB
dev/sda 4 Fedora swap ...4GB (overkill of course)
dev/sda 5 Fedora HOME ...4GB  "   "
dev/sda 6 Boot        ...4GB

ZTcoracat:~$ 4GB was overkill; 1 or 2 GB I think would of been sufficient but I wanted to use up all of the free space I had-

Hope this helps