On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 12:12 -0700, Adam Tong wrote: > Had only one partition created a new one with a free win software > "Minitool partition wizard home edition". According to the documentation on the Fedora website, you didn't have to do that. You could have let Fedora's installer shrink your original drive partition down, to make room for the Fedora installation. But never mind... Which presumes that you shrank your original single partition down, and made your new one in the space left over. You want to install Linux into that new partition. Rather than creating that new partition, you could have simply shrunk the old partition and did nothing more, leaving some *unallocated* space (not actually creating a new partition, and not formatting it), and Linux could have automatically used that "free" space for its own installation (that's the criteria Linux uses to find "free" space on your drive - space that's not already allocated as a partition). But it looks like your new partition was created, then formatted, appearing as "used" disc space, even if it doesn't have any files in it. So, you'd install Linux choosing to take over and replace an existing partition, rather than using free space (since you don't have any, according to how it thinks free space is determined). Just make sure that you pick the new partition to re-use, not the old one. That's assuming that you're trying to keep your Windows installation. If you don't care about keeping it, then just use the whole disc for Linux. You might want to look through this part of the Fedora website: http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-help Particularly this section: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/Installation_Guide/s1-diskpartsetup-x86.html -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- 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
