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

[James P. Kinney III]

This sounds like only part of the partition resizing has been
successful.

I'm not at the machine that has my notes so I can't give the links.

I have done this successfully several times. It involves the following:

1. defrag the NTFS system with the native defrag tools.
2. use a tool called ntfsresize (I think thats correct). It will move
the partition markers for the ntfs partition. It is a linux tool. I
found it while looking for ways to resize the ntfs drive on my Compaq
Tablet PC. 
3. Now you run the linux fdisk and delete the ntfs partition and then
recreate it the new size that was done in the previous step.
4. Now the Linux installers will work OK.

On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 14:00, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
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> The exact verbage of the error is:
> "An error occurred transferring the install image to hour hard drive.
> You are probably out of disk space."
> At that point, it gives me the option "ok", and then "back" or "next".
> If I choose "next", it goes through formatting, and then displays the
> error.  If I click "back", I can get back to the bootloader config, but
> not back to disk druid.
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> 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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