Fedora 11 Dual Boot Installation
Okay so now I know I belong in the newbie forum!
I want to dual boot Fedora 11 and Windows Vista, and the last time I tried I deleted my Windows Vista (big no no). So, I've made a partition of about 30GB, and I'm trying to go through the installation (from the live CD), but I don't know quite what to do? If I select Shrink existing disk, it doesn't let me do it for any amount that I put in, by the way. |
did you read the install guide ?
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ http://docs.fedoraproject.org/instal...11/en-US/html/ |
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This is a bit easier for Newbies to understand... good luck Program is Gparted Good luck... culaterout |
If you already created a partition for Fedora, what are you trying to shrink and why. I assume you meant shrink a partition no shrink a disk? What point do you run into problems specifically and do you get any error messages?
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Here's how I've done it: - I've created a partition through vista, about 30GB. - I made it drive X:\ but I did not format it (I don't think NTFS or FAT32 are good for linux, I think it's ext3 or ext4, right?) - I select the custom partition layout option, select the partition I made, and click 'new' From here I don't know what to do (when it starts asking for mount point and etc.) |
Format with ext3 filesystem. Simplest choice in mount point is to use "/" which means root, it's the / without quotes and should be the first choice in the drop down box.
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Yep, it's the first choice, but that doesn't make it the primary partition does it? I heard windows doesn't like being the secondary partition, so I'd like to avoid that if possible..
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So now I've gotten to trying to create a custom layout.
I tell it to use mount point "/" with ext3 type. Then it has an error message that says "Your / partition does not match the the live image you are installing from. It must be formatted as ext4." So I switch the type to ext4 and it then has another error saying, "Bootable partitions cannot be on an ext4 filesystem." What now? |
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first you need to deside if grub is going to be on the MBR ( replasing the MS Windows boot loder ) or not if not then the MS bootloder needs editing and a ext3 partition for /boot ( aprox 73 to 100 meg ) needs to be made fedora defaults to the NEW ext4 format ( can not be used for /boot) for / ,/home , etc. i use /boot - 100 meg /home - 5 gig / - 15 gig /DATA ( shared labelled data partition ) - 160 gig /swap - 2 gig ( shared with fedora and CentOS ) ======================== so for boot ( if used -- ext 3 for the rest -- ext4 |
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from the install doc
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/instal...mmend-x86.html also Microsoft sometimes tries to "fix" a 100% perfectly working GRUB if it is on the MBR . It dose this by replacing GRUB ( it boots MS also ) with the Microsoft bootloder ( IT DOSE NOT boot anything else but Microsoft products -- no linux , and no mac) easy to fix , once MS dose this ,but a pain in the A?? . |
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Your other errors are explained by John VV. I don't use Fedora but my understanding is that it automatically creates a separate /boot partition which needs to be ext3 format and apparently the / (root) partition needs to be ext4, at least with the DVD you have to install. |
Thanks guys, I've finally got it running properly!
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