[SOLVED] Installation With Fedora in process; Need partition help

Ztcoracat · 12-18-2012, 01:57 PM

Hi:

I'm in the middle of the Fedora 17 Install and I'm having trouble with the partitions. This Vaio has Win's 7 one it.

I'm at the point where:
Create Custom build and the installer is showing me all partitions:

sda 1 18865 ntfs

sda2 350 ntfs

sda3 457723 ntfs

Free 1

I choose sda3 and set / and the mount point and allocated 20MB for the journaling file system. The Fedora installer informed me that it could not allocate requested partitions not enough free space-
Also when trying to create a partition (ext4) for boot the installer only shows me in MB-

Should I have chosen the sda2 350 (which Win's 7 said is 'Reserved'space?

Please advise I'm a little confused here-

Yoshimitsuspeed · 12-18-2012, 03:25 PM

first you will need it to delete a partition. Then you need to tell it to create the partition you desire. In this case you will want to make it an ext4 partition.
If you plan to keep windows and more importantly if you are attached to the data on windows you need to be really careful here. If you delete a partition with data on it then that data will be lost. If you delete a partition with windows OS data on it then it's very likely windows will no longer boot up.

Ztcoracat · 12-18-2012, 03:36 PM

Thanks; I forgot about deleting a partition in order to make the 3 partitions that I need:
"/", boot, and home-

If I delete the wrong partition; your right; I won't even be able to boot into Win's-

The "sda2 350 ntfs" is Reserved is that the partition I should delete and create from that?

yancek · 12-18-2012, 03:50 PM

If you only have three partitions currently, there is not reason why you could not create an Extended partition to hold additional logical partitions for your Linux. How much free space (if any) do you have? Is sda3 the largest partition? or is one of the others larger? Most pre-installed windows 7 have three partitions, a small (1-200MB) boot partition, a 10-12GB recovery partition with the rest of the disk for the filesystem.

Quote:

I choose sda3 and set / and the mount point and allocated 20MB for the journaling file system

That's a typo, right? Did you mean 20GB, because there is obviously no way you are going to install anything on 20MB.
I would suggest you use the Fedora CD, boot it up and login as root user in a terminal and run the command: fdisk -l(lower case Letter L in the command) and post the output here so you can get some specific and realistic suggestion. The command will tell us drive/partition information, otherwise any suggestions will be guesses.

Also, what does Free 1 mean, is that free/unallocated space or a fourth partition?

Ztcoracat · 12-18-2012, 04:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yancek

If you only have three partitions currently, there is not reason why you could not create an Extended partition to hold additional logical partitions for your Linux. How much free space (if any) do you have? Is sda3 the largest partition? or is one of the others larger? Most pre-installed windows 7 have three partitions, a small (1-200MB) boot partition, a 10-12GB recovery partition with the rest of the disk for the filesystem.

That's a typo, right? Did you mean 20GB, because there is obviously no way you are going to install anything on 20MB.
I would suggest you use the Fedora CD, boot it up and login as root user in a terminal and run the command: fdisk -l(lower case Letter L in the command) and post the output here so you can get some specific and realistic suggestion. The command will tell us drive/partition information, otherwise any suggestions will be guesses.

Also, what does Free 1 mean, is that free/unallocated space or a fourth partition?

I have 1MG of Free space.
Yes, sda is the largest partition. Pretty sure that's the one with Win's 7 on it-

Yes 20MB was a typed mistake I meant 20GB

I'll stop the install disk and run:

Code:

fdisk -l

And post back the output. BTW didn't know the Live Cd would let me use the terminal.

For now the laptop is turned off with the Live CD of Fedora in the HDD.

Ztcoracat · 12-18-2012, 04:36 PM

For Yancek

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd764a28d

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2048 38637567 19317760 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda2 * 38637568 39354367 358400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 39354368 976771119 468708376 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Disk /dev/mapper/live-rw: 3221 MB, 3221225472 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 391 cylinders, total 6291456 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 /dev/mapper/live-osimg-min: 3221 MB, 3221225472 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 391 cylinders, total 6291456 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

TobiSGD · 12-18-2012, 07:53 PM

Boot into Windows, use the Windows partition manager to shrink the Windows partition, so that you get free space on the disk. Start the Fedora installer and either partition the free space yourself or let the installer do the job.

Tip for the future: If you are asked for the output of a command post the complete output and use code-tags for that output. This preserves the format and makes your post easier to read.

Ztcoracat · 12-18-2012, 08:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TobiSGD

Boot into Windows, use the Windows partition manager to shrink the Windows partition, so that you get free space on the disk. Start the Fedora installer and either partition the free space yourself or let the installer do the job.

Tip for the future: If you are asked for the output of a command post the complete output and use code-tags for that output. This preserves the format and makes your post easier to read.

Ok; the Windows partition was 447.00GB
I shrunk that partition to 215.27 GB Unallocated space.

Placing the Live Fedora CD in the HDD and starting the install process over again-

Ztcoracat · 12-18-2012, 09:13 PM

I now have the Welcome screen.....
It's telling me that there are a few more steps to take before the system is ready to use.
Going thru the Set Up Agent-

I hope everything is ok

Ztcoracat · 12-18-2012, 10:23 PM

The Installation of Fedora 17 on my Sony Vaio was a sucess!

Yoshimitsuspeed, TobiSGD and Yancek Thank You for giving me advice and instructions.