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

[Nathan J. Underwood]

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I'd actually like to find some way to do it without the 'Mandrake step',
if there's one available.

Brian Chase wrote:

| Fedora doesn't have NTFS resizing, but just use Mandrake to do the
| install first, then install Fedora and at the prompt early on where you
| have this as a choice comes up, "Delete Linux partitions" when it
| prompts you and Fedora and grub will work like a charm.  You'll have a
| clean, dual boot WinXP/Fedora machine.
|
| Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
|
|
| Brian,
|
|     I definitely appreciate the post, but would prefer to stick with
| Fedora.  I've been a RH user since 4.2, just haven't had a need (desire)
| to setup a dual-boot system.  Do you know if Fedora has a similar option
| to resize the NTFS partitions to that (apparently) available with
| Mandrake?  Thanks for your help!!
|
| Brian Chase wrote:
|
| | 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:
| |
| | 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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