hi David,
I would like to know if the memory configuration must be done (this causes me confusion)
- before starting the installation process,
- or be made during the installation process
- or, finally, if it can be done in both cases
Are you preparing to install Fedora 21 ? Yes I am installing Fedora 21
500 GB is way large enough Ok what happened - happened (I say now) ......
Then I would be making a backup of your disk No matter for the data it is nothing on the computer now, I bought few day ago...
I would use a bootable gparted CD to resize the main windows partition to leave the space you want for your linux installations YES I have a bootable gparted
It would help if we were able to see how the disk is currently partitioned
this is the output of # fdisk -l /dev/sda:
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disk /dev/sda : 931.5 GiB 1.000.204.886.016 bytes 19.535.525.168 sectors
Units : sectors of 1*512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physic) 512 bytes / 409 bytes
disklabel type : gpt
Disk identifier : 57CA xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
device start end sectors size type
/dev/sda1 2.048 2.048 2.095.104 1.023 M Microsoft recovery environment
/dev/sda2 2.097.152 2.097.152 737.280 360 M EFI system
/dev/sda3 2.834.432 2.834.432 262.144 128 M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda4 30.096.576 3.096.576 921.841.664 439.6 G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5 1.931.636.736 1.953.513.471 21.876.736 10.4 G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda6 924.938.240 1.931.636.735 1.006.698.496 480 G Linux file system
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Thank you very much for your answer
Angelo
On 12/03/15 21:22, Angelo Moreschini wrote:
...
> I do not see a chance to interact with the program to implement the
> required choices.
Are you preparing to install Fedora 21 ?
500 GB is way large enough, for example my current installation of the
system partitions is: df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 39G 27G 9.4G 75% /
/dev/sda1 2.0G 604M 1.3G 33% /boot
/dev/sdc2 40G 34G 5.9G 86% /var
(I have /var on a separate disk and partition due to the main disk
being an SSD; this avoids potential problems with data on /var that is
often being re-written. It also contains package mockbuild caches for
F19,F20,F21, EL5, EL6, EL7 totaling 4.8GB, and some virtual machines.)
/dev/mapper/vg1-home_vg1 643G 643G 713M 100% /home
(could be as small as say 20G; you may also like to mount your windows
partition to use data files from it - this would give more space).
I have 3577 rpm packages installed. [rpm -qa|wc -l], so this is quite a
large install.
> And, in the case I need to prepare the partitions in one way
> differentthan I already prepared, I do not know how to do this ...
It would help if we were able to see how the disk is currently
partitioned. You could boot a Fedora rescue image (to text mode), and
then list the current layout of the first sata disk by:
# fdisk -l /dev/sda
, and reply to the list with that info.
Then I would be making a backup of your disk. If you haven't done much
in windows, then this might only be a DVD or 2 worth of space.
Next, I would use a bootable gparted CD to resize the main windows
partition to leave the space you want for your linux installations. I've
done this quite often without trouble, but better to backup then be
sorry if it doesn't work.
Once there is space to add your new Fedora partitions in, we can provide
some info on how to set custom partitioning during Fedora install.
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