[ale] Dual Boot WinXP Pro + Fedora Core 1 "You are probably out of disk space"

[Brian Chase]

Getting it all to work can be done various ways, but I'll just make a 
suggestion since this is your first time.

If you can, reload a clean XP onto the entire hard drive from scratch if 
possible.  NTFS should take up the entire drive at this point.  If you 
can't do that, take the existing WinXP and do a disk defragment on it first.

Then load Mandrake 9.2 on it by just booting the first Mandrake CD from 
the CDROM drive.  When you go to the Mandrake site, you'll notice that 
10.0 is available, but I'm reading of LOTS of bugs.  I know 9.2 is the 
most stable Mandrake of recent history and it's very good.  The install 
process allows you to resize your NTFS partition in the install, and 
works flawlessly and is the MOST user friendly way to get this going.  
Finish the install, using GRUB as a bootloader in the Master Boot Record 
preferably.

Try out Mandrake, if you don't like it, you can then use the partitions 
created in the first Mandrake install to reload Fedora on top, just 
remember when you get the disk drake (Mandrake) or disk druid (Fedora) 
to NOT format the NTFS partition, all you'll need is "/boot" partition 
(100MB), "/swap" partition (twice the size of your RAM), and whatever's 
left as your "/" partition.

Post again if this doesn't work, but I'm confident this is your easiest 
way to a dual boot scenario.  Suse Linux offers NTFS resize as well, but 
doesn't offer free ISO downloads.

Cheers,

BC





Nathan J. Underwood wrote:

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> Ok, I'm just now getting on the dual-boot bandwagon, and it's not quite
> as easy as I had expected.  I'm installing on an IBM Thinkpad with a
> 60GB drive, and WinXP Pro is already installed on hda1 (factory load).
> I used qtparted to size down the partition to 25GB, and wanted to setup
> a 10GB partition for Linux (Fedora Core1).  I read through this
> (http://www.hut.fi/~tkarvine/linux-windows-dual-boot-resing-ntfs.html),
> but couldn't get it to install.  At the point that it should / would
> normally start copying files, I get an error stating that I am probably
> out of drive space.  I had setup [swap] (hda2 = 512MB), /boot (hda3 =
> 100MB), / (hda3 = 9[ish]GB).  So, I figured I'd dorked something up, and
> restarted.  Same thing (I went as far as to delete the partitions so
> that there was just the 25GB NTFS, and a blank one).  So then, blew away
> those partitions (that Linux created) again, and started the install
> again, this time choosing the "Personal Desktop" option.  Same error.  I
> think I'm just missing something, but can't seem to figure out what it
> is.  I know that there's sufficient room there (on / ) for it to
> install, or should be at least.  What am I missing?
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