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01-28-2009, 10:01 AM
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Registered: Feb 2007
Location: TX, USA
Distribution: fedora
Posts: 191
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Windows and Fedora
Hi All,
I want to Linux and windows as well on my laptop. Which should I install first in order to get dual boot.
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01-28-2009, 10:02 AM
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LQ 5k Club
Registered: May 2001
Location: Belgium
Distribution: Arch
Posts: 8,529
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first install windows, then fedora
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01-28-2009, 10:08 AM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2007
Location: TX, USA
Distribution: fedora
Posts: 191
Original Poster
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partions
Hi,
Is it true that i need to keep some memory space as unallocated, while I am doing partitions on windows.
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01-28-2009, 10:22 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2007
Location: In front of my LINUX OR MAC BOX
Distribution: Mandriva 2009 X86_64 suse 11.3 X86_64 Centos X86_64 Debian X86_64 Linux MInt 86_64 OS X
Posts: 2,369
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If windowsz is already running for sometimes Defrag windows first .
Look how the pagefile of windows is .
Sometimes you have to disable it before resizing .
In this you to enable afterwords again
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01-28-2009, 12:27 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: UK
Distribution: CentOS 6/7
Posts: 1,375
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It's more suitable to leave space free in advance, resizing partitions is a dirty and dangerous way to do things but their are methods in which it can be done.
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