/dev/sda6 =--> is the new partition that I recently created with file
system type ext4
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Angelo Moreschini <
mrangelo.fedora(a)gmail.com> wrote:
hi David,
I would like to know if the memory configuration must be done (this causes
me confusion)
- before starting the installation process,
- or be made during the installation process
- or, finally, if it can be done in both cases
Are you preparing to install Fedora 21 ? Yes I am installing Fedora 21
500 GB is way large enough Ok what happened - happened (I say now)
......
Then I would be making a backup of your disk No matter for the data it is
nothing on the computer now, I bought few day ago...
I would use a bootable gparted CD to resize the main windows partition to
leave the space you want for your linux installations YES I have a
bootable gparted
It would help if we were able to see how the disk is currently partitioned
this is the output of # fdisk -l /dev/sda:
--------------------------------------
disk /dev/sda : 931.5 GiB 1.000.204.886.016 bytes 19.535.525.168 sectors
Units : sectors of 1*512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physic) 512 bytes / 409 bytes
disklabel type : gpt
Disk identifier : 57CA xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
device start end
sectors size type
/dev/sda1 2.048 2.048
2.095.104 1.023 M Microsoft recovery environment
/dev/sda2 2.097.152 2.097.152
737.280 360 M EFI system
/dev/sda3 2.834.432 2.834.432 262.144
128 M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda4 30.096.576 3.096.576 921.841.664
439.6 G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5 1.931.636.736 1.953.513.471 21.876.736
10.4 G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda6 924.938.240 1.931.636.735 1.006.698.496
480 G Linux file system
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Thank you very much for your answer
Angelo
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 2:18 PM, David Timms <dtimms(a)iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On 12/03/15 21:22, Angelo Moreschini wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > I do not see a chance to interact with the program to implement the
> > required choices.
> Are you preparing to install Fedora 21 ?
>
> 500 GB is way large enough, for example my current installation of the
> system partitions is: df -h
>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda3 39G 27G 9.4G 75% /
> /dev/sda1 2.0G 604M 1.3G 33% /boot
> /dev/sdc2 40G 34G 5.9G 86% /var
> (I have /var on a separate disk and partition due to the main disk
> being an SSD; this avoids potential problems with data on /var that is
> often being re-written. It also contains package mockbuild caches for
> F19,F20,F21, EL5, EL6, EL7 totaling 4.8GB, and some virtual machines.)
>
> /dev/mapper/vg1-home_vg1 643G 643G 713M 100% /home
> (could be as small as say 20G; you may also like to mount your windows
> partition to use data files from it - this would give more space).
>
> I have 3577 rpm packages installed. [rpm -qa|wc -l], so this is quite a
> large install.
>
>
> > And, in the case I need to prepare the partitions in one way
> > differentthan I already prepared, I do not know how to do this ...
> It would help if we were able to see how the disk is currently
> partitioned. You could boot a Fedora rescue image (to text mode), and
> then list the current layout of the first sata disk by:
> # fdisk -l /dev/sda
> , and reply to the list with that info.
>
> Then I would be making a backup of your disk. If you haven't done much
> in windows, then this might only be a DVD or 2 worth of space.
>
> Next, I would use a bootable gparted CD to resize the main windows
> partition to leave the space you want for your linux installations. I've
> done this quite often without trouble, but better to backup then be
> sorry if it doesn't work.
>
> Once there is space to add your new Fedora partitions in, we can provide
> some info on how to set custom partitioning during Fedora install.
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