haaving problem dual operating system installation windows 7 and linux fedora 20

meechiravi · 03-30-2014, 10:48 AM

hi

i have installed in my laptop windows7 and want to install fedora 20 as dual operating system.

i have 4 gb ram and 75gb hard disk.. i used 50 gb for windows and 25gb is unallocated

i try to install fedora 20 on free space.. when i select add new mount point while installation fedora it says no free space. but i have 25gb free space how to solve this problem

can u suggest me
regards and thanks
ravi

John VV · 03-30-2014, 01:08 PM

is that "free" space really just a not used NTFS formatted partition for windows ?

or
did you really shrink win7 using win7's disk tools?

have you read through the fedora 20 install guide ?

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/...ide/index.html

this is explained in there

redd9 · 03-30-2014, 07:36 PM

Can you run Fedora live then take a screenshot of Gparted? That might help us to pinpoint the problem.

meechiravi · 03-30-2014, 09:34 PM

first i installed windows 7 in my laptop. i created 3 ntfs partitions total 50 GB. i dont use 25 gb .it is free space.

then i created live fedora cd in pendrive using iniversal installer usb software tool. Then i started fedora installation from pendrive. i selected partitions. it shows 25 GB available space. when i create mount point it says not enough free space.

what might be the problem

John VV · 03-30-2014, 09:55 PM

you already have 4 primary's
you need to convert that 4th partition into an EXTENDED partition
and use the partitions you make in that to install fedora into

meechiravi · 03-31-2014, 03:08 AM

how to convert that 4 th partition into extended can u tell me pls

John VV · 03-31-2014, 11:41 AM

use the free Gparted live cd

and format the drive / partition

you DO have a back up of windows and a windows install disk ? right
the VERY first time you booted win7 it asked you to make a recovery disk , did you
if not
you can buy one from Microsoft