On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:35 AM, JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 09/15/2010 12:56 PM, allen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am using a laptop with two hard drives in it, one which has Windows >> Vista installed on it, and another physical drive which is a Data drive, >> each of them are 150 GB in capacity. I wanted to convert my Data drive >> into a disk that has Fedora 13 (KDE Spin) on it. I made a 2GB USB pen >> drive into a LiveUSB with the KDE Spin ISO file on it and my computer >> boots up fine into Fedora 13 with it. However, when I go to "Install to >> Hard Drive," I am presented with a conundrum. When I go to select which >> drive I want to install the Fedora OS to, the drives are virtually >> indistinguishable, save for differing IDs which are just strings of random >> numbers and letters. I can't, for example, tell from this how much space >> is left on either, or which drive has Windows installed on it, and I don't >> want to partition one for Fedora 13 only to find out that it was the drive >> with Windows on it and end up losing all of my information. Does anyone >> know of a way to distinguish between the two, or can anyone help me >> through this process? Thank you for your time and help! >> >> Dan > Do you have PartitionMagic? > If so, you can use it to compact both disks, and shrink the > partition size (graphically) and leave room for Linux. > Should not need more than 8GB for linux and 2GB for swap. 8G really is not enough. Unless, I suppose, the only purpose is to run Firefox, Abiword, Gramps, gnumeric, and gnucash. Still kind of tight, especially when you update. Besides, (1) re-sizing is dangerous. Period. Yeah, PartitionMagic bit me once. Luckily, I only had about 20M of data that I had to recover through the floppy drive using DOS commands. Luckily, DOS mounted the volume PM killed. And, yeah, I knew that re-sizing the sixth time was pushing my luck. But I decided I prefer to plan ahead after that. Plan ahead and not cut my partitions too close. > If you plan to install a lot of software packages, and have a > lot of room for data you will generate under linux, then you > have to be the judge of that. It is always good to have 2-4 > GB of swap space. And what if the computer has 4G of RAM? Double the size of RAM, assign that much for swap. Joel Rees > [...] -- 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
