Installing Fedora on top of a Windows installation

[PCessna]

Now, I'm sure this impossible, But does Fedora's disk partitioning app allow resizing a disk using FULLY a NTFS partition.

I have 160GB free, (of a 250GB disk) and wanted to dedicate 60GB to fedora core 10 GNOME 64-bit, and have the CD ready anyways, If it was possible, Can I just tell it to just hda0 or whatever is calls partitions into hda0 + hda1, and have grub on the master boot partition?

MY OS: WINDOWS XP

[forestpiskie]

I would use the vista tool to shrink it's disk.

It's likley that you can create a partition in the resulting empty space, last time I installed fedora there was a linux partition I could use.

If it's a livecd you'll be able to get online from it and check further.

[PCessna]

I would use the vista tool to shrink it's disk.

It's likley that you can create a partition in the resulting empty space, last time I installed fedora there was a linux partition I could use.

If it's a livecd you'll be able to get online from it and check further.

Where did I say I had Vista? Got rid of the garbage months ago.

[forestpiskie]

Tell you what - reword the first post so that is actully makes some sense then we can all have another go.

Might be best not to talk about vista in it I'd say.

[dmizer]

The partition manager in Knoppix (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html) can handle NTFS.

Regarding Fedora, you might get better information if you ask on their forums instead of here: http://fedoraforum.org/

[mikjp]

Use GParted (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/).

[PCessna]

Use GParted (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/).

I am running Windows, NOT GNOME. I have Ubuntu through wubi, I have uneasy feelings about trying to run that through Ubuntu.

[forestpiskie]

It's a livecd - burn it and boot with it.

[PCessna]

It's a livecd - burn it and boot with it.

Again - I feel uneasy about using a live CD

[forestpiskie]

You have ubuntu installed on wubi on a virtual partition so you can't resize it form there as far as I know. You will have to either use a partition editor on an install disc - like you're ubuntu or the fedora one, you've been advised to use knoppix and gparted. I don't know that there are any options left if you don't want to use a livecd.

[PCessna]

Again - I feel uneasy about using a live CD

There are other ways, But obviously no one wants to speak up -- Fine, I'll go try Fedora's forums about their installer, forget you people then.

[bodhi.zazen]

First, in general, it is best to manage your partitions from a live CD.

This is because you can not resize the root partition while it is running from hard drive.

In regards to Fedora, yes Fedora, and in fact almost every distro, uses gparted.

gparted can resize most partitions including both ntfs and vfat.

If for some reason Fedora fails, you can use any distro that includes gparted including your Ubuntu CD.

Take care in that Fedora will replace your boot loader and the installer may not recognize windows.

Also Fedora by default uses LVM. If you do not know what that is either do not use it or read up on LVM before you install.

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