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

[Brian Chase]

You ask for help, someone tells you an easy way, you decide against it.

The definition of insanity is repeating the same behavior and expecting 
different results, lol.

Oh well, it's fun learning thru your mistakes too, god knows I've done 
it plenty.

Cheers and good luck,

BC

Nathan J. Underwood wrote:

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> Ok, update.  I just went through the process again (I really think I did
> the same things, but I'm getting a little tunnel visioned now), and it's
> going through the install.  I used the 'personal desktop' install
> option, and told it to use the existing free space (hopefully leaving
> the XP install alone).  Hmmm.
>
> 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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