You can expect any laptop you buy with some OS already installed will have consumed most, if not all the available hd. Either you resize with some tool, or delete partitions and reconfigure. No surprise there. I would strongly suggest you not blithely install Linux on a single partition. At the very least, I strongly suggest a separate partition for /home. Please consider the guidance re such decisioning provided in our installation HOWTO: http://SpeakupModified.Org/HOWTO_INSTALL.html#diskdruid Beth Hatch writes: > Re: Thinkpad Saga Continues > Hi Sean and all, > > That's a really good question!<smile> Yes, Fedora did notice my > Windows partition. The problem was that the way that Lenovo made the > partitions, according > to my Linux instructor, meant that we had to break the existing > partitions before installing Linux and then fix grub to recognize what > we had done. > The computer was broken into one 30 gigabyte partition and another 90 > GB partition. Since there wasn't enough room on the smaller partition, > we had > to use the bigger one in order to put Linux on one 45 GB partition and > Windows on the other 45 GB partion we then made. this meant that we had > to temporarily > remove Windows to build the new partitions.
