On 06/20/2012 09:30:06 AM, Greg Woods wrote:
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 07:58 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > Geoffrey Leach <geoff(a)hughes.net> wrote:
> > >No. What I'm dealing with is a naked, never-before-seeing-fedora
> > disk.
> > >(there are a couple of ntfs partitions put there by the
> > manufacturer.
Most manufacturer-delivered disks that I have seen allocate the
entire
disk to Windows. Are you sure there is actually free space left on
the
disk to allocate? Once anaconda has started, you can press CTRL-ALT-
F2
and get to a shell. Then you can run something like "fdisk -l
/dev/sda"
to see how the disk is partitioned.
What I had to do in a similar situation was run "gparted" (from a
bootable live CD; I actually used an Ubuntu live CD even though I was
preparing to install Fedora, just because the Ubuntu CD comes with
gparted ready to go). Using gparted, I could shrink down the main
windows partition to make room for some Linux partitions. That
allowed
me to preserve the manufacturer-installed Windows system and also
install Fedora.
Windows seemed to think that there was available space, but then,
that's windows :-) The mfg in this case (Puget Systems) is pretty good
about following instructions, but again, trust but verify.
I didn't know about ctl-alt-f2. I'tt try that for a check. Thanks.