On 11 March 2013 09:51, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 11 March 2013, Dan Irwin sent: >> The installer won't let me install. It won't find free space. It won't >> shrink partitions. >> >> I even dropped to a shell, and used fdisk to blow away my windows 7 >> partition, and the installer still doesn't work properly! > > I haven't tried Fedora 18, but are you getting snagged by the old issue > of users think an formatted partition is "free space," but the installer > wants to find completely unused space on the drive (i.e. don't make a > new partition, delete one, and leave it deleted). > It is potentially possible to resize existing filesystems and partitions to create free unpartitioned space which can be used for an install, however the released F18 installer disabled this option due to problems with it (you really don't want to mess it up). -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- 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
