On Saturday, 28 August, 2010 @23:54 zulu, James McKenzie scribed: > > Before the days of LVM, I put /swap and / as primary partitions and > everything else (/opt, /usr, /home, /WHATEVER) on an extended > partition. This worked well. If all you have is WindowsXP, you have > two primary partitions left.... Not with most Dell computers. Nearly all of them ship with the first primary (sda1) as a ~50MB 'utility' FAT partition, then an NTFS partition as sda2 with windows on it, then a 4GB or so FAT32 partition (sda3) containing a factory restore image, accessible from a menu in the utility partition or directly from Win7's repair menu. THEN, if the computer has a Media Direct button, there will be a MediaDirect partition too (v3 and later MediaDirect uses a visible partition rather than using the HPA that v1 and v2 used). If you're lucky, the MD partition is SDA5, so you could just shrink the NTFS partition, expand the extended (sda4?) partition, which might provide room for logical volumes in which to put fedora and swap. It sounds like the OP has a Live CD already, since they described booting to fedora then using the install icon. So the output from # fdisk -l might be the more-appropriate info to request. Note that the # prompt implies 'root' rather than normal 'user' access. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
