On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 07:58 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > Geoffrey Leach <geoff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >No. What I'm dealing with is a naked, never-before-seeing-fedora > > disk. > > >(there are a couple of ntfs partitions put there by the > > manufacturer. Most manufacturer-delivered disks that I have seen allocate the entire disk to Windows. Are you sure there is actually free space left on the disk to allocate? Once anaconda has started, you can press CTRL-ALT-F2 and get to a shell. Then you can run something like "fdisk -l /dev/sda" to see how the disk is partitioned. What I had to do in a similar situation was run "gparted" (from a bootable live CD; I actually used an Ubuntu live CD even though I was preparing to install Fedora, just because the Ubuntu CD comes with gparted ready to go). Using gparted, I could shrink down the main windows partition to make room for some Linux partitions. That allowed me to preserve the manufacturer-installed Windows system and also install Fedora. --Greg -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
