On 06/20/2012 09:30:06 AM, Greg Woods wrote: > 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. Windows seemed to think that there was available space, but then, that's windows :-) The mfg in this case (Puget Systems) is pretty good about following instructions, but again, trust but verify. I didn't know about ctl-alt-f2. I'tt try that for a check. Thanks. -- 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
