On Sun, 2011-10-23 at 09:57 -0500, Miguel Cardenas wrote: > Hello > > I've installed Fedora 15 to try the distro, it was a bit difficult at > first (I have used Slackware for the last 8 years) but I'm beginning > to become familiar with Fedora usage, although I have a few doubts > about the partitions. > > For years I used to create 2 primary partitions, SWAP and EXT3, but > now I found that Fedora requires a different layout with more > partitions like other *nix operating systems that distribute the space > in more areas for home, root, usr, etc. > > I would like to keep simple my disk, and reading the Fedora > installation guide found that there are only 3 partitions required, > SWAP, BOOT (ext3) and ROOT / (ext3)... I still don't like the idea of > an independent boot partition but let's do it in the Fedora way... so, > I want to know if this layout may work for me... I want to ask before > doing it to save hours of installation just to try and see the > results... > > #1 PRIMARY type 0c (Win95 Fat32 LBA) > #2 EXTENDED > A - SWAP type 82 > B - BOOT /boot type 83 (linux ext3) > C - ROOT / type 83 (linux ext3) > > And one additional doubt... Fedora worked fine on this laptop but just > bought a new one, it comes with Windows7 preinstalled and want to keep > the original system backed up... Do you think it is safe to use > Clonezilla for any modern hard disk? My doubt is because I have a > relatively old IDE disk (80Gb) that after restoring a Clonezilla > backup it does not boot anymore, I guess it is due a possible > different geometry interpretation by my installed linux and the > Clonezilla bootable linux, since the disk is ok and works always > perfect... > > So, do you think it would be a good idea to backup Win7 on a SATA > 500Gb disk, no datafiles yet, just the operating system, I want to > keep it for the license... > > And, after the backup, during the Fedora installation, it asks how to > use the hard disk, there is an option to shrink a used partition, but > would it work with Win7? As far as I know a NTFS partition can not be > shrinked... is it possible? can you comment something about this? > > Thanks for your help! > > > -- > Miguel Cardenas You can customize your partitions using the Custom option in the installation sequence. It is all easier if you install the Windows first in the first partition. -- ======================================================================= The end of labor is to gain leisure. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
