On Sun, 2011-10-23 at 09:57 -0500, Miguel Cardenas wrote:
Hello
I've installed Fedora 15 to try the distro, it was a bit difficult at
first (I have used Slackware for the last 8 years) but I'm beginning
to become familiar with Fedora usage, although I have a few doubts
about the partitions.
For years I used to create 2 primary partitions, SWAP and EXT3, but
now I found that Fedora requires a different layout with more
partitions like other *nix operating systems that distribute the space
in more areas for home, root, usr, etc.
I would like to keep simple my disk, and reading the Fedora
installation guide found that there are only 3 partitions required,
SWAP, BOOT (ext3) and ROOT / (ext3)... I still don't like the idea of
an independent boot partition but let's do it in the Fedora way... so,
I want to know if this layout may work for me... I want to ask before
doing it to save hours of installation just to try and see the
results...
#1 PRIMARY type 0c (Win95 Fat32 LBA)
#2 EXTENDED
A - SWAP type 82
B - BOOT /boot type 83 (linux ext3)
C - ROOT / type 83 (linux ext3)
And one additional doubt... Fedora worked fine on this laptop but just
bought a new one, it comes with Windows7 preinstalled and want to keep
the original system backed up... Do you think it is safe to use
Clonezilla for any modern hard disk? My doubt is because I have a
relatively old IDE disk (80Gb) that after restoring a Clonezilla
backup it does not boot anymore, I guess it is due a possible
different geometry interpretation by my installed linux and the
Clonezilla bootable linux, since the disk is ok and works always
perfect...
So, do you think it would be a good idea to backup Win7 on a SATA
500Gb disk, no datafiles yet, just the operating system, I want to
keep it for the license...
And, after the backup, during the Fedora installation, it asks how to
use the hard disk, there is an option to shrink a used partition, but
would it work with Win7? As far as I know a NTFS partition can not be
shrinked... is it possible? can you comment something about this?
Thanks for your help!
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Miguel Cardenas
You can customize your partitions using the Custom option in the
installation sequence. It is all easier if you install the Windows first
in the first partition.
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