On 10/18/2013 08:09 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 10/18/2013 09:50 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker issued this missive: >> >> Hello, >> >> I have a Lenovo T430 that had Windows 7 Pro pre-installed, but I >> wiped out Windows and installed Fedora 19 instead (actually, I first >> installed Ubuntu and then Fedora). >> >> Now I want to turn it into a dual-boot machine with Fedora and >> Windows based on the license for the pre-installed Windows. >> >> I see on the web some recommendations to first install Windows, and >> some say you can install first Linux and then Windows, but it may not >> work for (some?) pre-installed versions. >> >> So, now I'm wondering whether I should first wipe out Fedora and then >> put first Windows and second Fedora, or whether I should try to keep >> Fedora and add Windows next to it? >> >> My file systems currently look like this: >> >> [oruebenacker@localhost ~]$ df >> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >> /dev/mapper/fedora-root 51475068 8239400 40597844 17% / >> devtmpfs 3929460 0 3929460 0% /dev >> tmpfs 3936376 96 3936280 1% /dev/shm >> tmpfs 3936376 900 3935476 >> <tel:900%C2%A0%C2%A0%203935476> 1% /run >> tmpfs 3936376 0 3936376 0% /sys/fs/cgroup >> tmpfs 3936376 52 3936324 1% /tmp >> /dev/sda1 487652 120305 337651 27% /boot >> /dev/mapper/fedora-home 420590200 21603936 377598388 6% /home > > It would help if you use fdisk -l because that shows the partition scheme. For instance, this machine I'm typing on is set up this way: [doug@linux1 ~]$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda Password: Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000a43e9 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 152969215 76483584 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 152971264 693846015 270437376 5 Extended /dev/sda3 693846016 976773119 141463552 83 Linux /dev/sda5 152973312 178364415 12695552 83 Linux /dev/sda6 178366464 227194879 24414208 83 Linux /dev/sda7 227196928 402358271 87580672 83 Linux /dev/sda8 402360320 521773055 59706368 83 Linux /dev/sda9 521775104 552476671 15350784 83 Linux /dev/sda10 552478720 580956159 14238720 83 Linux /dev/sda11 580958208 613044223 16043008 83 Linux /dev/sda12 613046272 621223293 4088511 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda13 621225984 693846015 36310016 83 Linux If you mount all the systems on the disk first, you can also use df, but you need to use df -a. (You can mount the partitions most easily by just clicking on them one by one in your file manager--Dolphin, here.) [doug@linux1 ~]$ df -a Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda7 83G 37G 42G 47% / none 0 0 0 - /proc none 0 0 0 - /dev/pts none 4.0G 0 4.0G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda8 57G 19G 38G 33% /home none 0 0 0 - /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc gvfs-fuse-daemon 0 0 0 - /home/doug/.gvfs /dev/sda5 12G 5.0G 6.4G 44% /media/3ecbd78e-07af-4b75-b821-6386f923f749 /dev/sda6 23G 610M 22G 3% /media/2ee029cf-6ab2-4fad-a113-009963c029d2 /dev/sda9 15G 3.2G 11G 23% /media/c23f16ec-dff7-47b1-a25f-0ad96f41d339 /dev/sda10 14G 1.2G 13G 9% /media/281e1124-f7c8-4efa-9ec1-b3560362ac3b /dev/sda11 16G 7.9G 6.5G 55% /media/50367372-b1c6-4dff-a774-4a3129954fca /dev/sda1 73G 58G 16G 79% /media/Windows /dev/sda13 35G 348M 34G 1% /media/7fd7f873-0551-48a5-91d1-ac701a998f12 /dev/sda3 133G 60M 126G 1% /media/54320286-5240-4fae-8ff0-4d75d2ca9910 This shows that the system I am running is on /dev/sda7 and /dev/sda8, and it also shows that /dev/sda1 is Windows, altho you could have deduced that from the fdisk indication of NTFS file system. Note that df does not show the swap partition, nor does it show the extended partition--sda2--on which the Linux systems are mounted. However, your post shows that your Linux system is on /dev/sda1, which may turn out to be a problem for Windows--I don't know. However, this machine started with XP on sda1, and then a different Linux on sda5 and 6, installed after XP. Then, with several Linux installs, I upgraded XP to Win 8.0. It required me to run a Linux live disk, and run rdo mbr to get the multiboot back. This is not the same as what you have. I think if I were doing it, I would use gparted to move the Linux partition up the drive, leaving room for a Windows primary partition as sda1. I'm not absolutely sure of the mechanics of doing that, so I won't post something that will lead you astray. Anyway, using gparted, format the sda1 space which will be your Windows partition with NTFS. I don't think Windows will even see partitions formatted with ext4, which I imagine is what the Linux partition is. Hope this helps--doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers..for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M.Greeley -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
