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

[Nathan J. Underwood]

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yeah, I've known that I had some sanity issues for quite a while B-),
but really wanted to know how to make this work.  Some kind of personal
'rite of passage' or something I guess. I've just booted, and all looks
well.  The Fedora install took all of the free space (like I told it
too), so I'm going to have to see if I can resize the / partition.  Once
I get it just like I want it, I'll probably save any data that I have,
format, and reinstall just to see if I can replicate all of the mean and
nasty thoughts I had about dual-booting.

Brian Chase wrote:

| 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:
|
| 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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