On 11/04/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ali Helmy</b> <<a href="mailto:alihelmy@gmail.com">alihelmy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="e" id="q_10a8a686fbcd3ea2_0">On 11/04/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ali Helmy</b> <<a href="mailto:alihelmy@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
alihelmy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="direction: ltr;"><span>On 11/04/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Howarth</b> <<a href="mailto:paul@city-fan.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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Gordon Messmer wrote:<br>> Christian Nolte wrote:<br>>><br>>> There exists a nice live-cd including GParted, a graphical partition<br>>> manager which is capable of resizing your NTFS partitions:<br>
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<br>>> <a href="http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html</a><br>><br>> And that might even be useful, if someone can point to a nice
<br>> vmlinuz/initrd combo that can be loaded with grub.
<br><br>You can pull one from the boot.iso file:<br><a href="http://www.city-fan.org/tips/BootInstallerFromHardDisk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.city-fan.org/tips/BootInstallerFromHardDisk
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</div></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span><br>The problem that you're going to run in to is that Fedora does not<br>include a tool to resize NTFS partitions, so before you can install<br>Fedora, you need to find a way to free space on your drive.
<br><br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr;">Well, thanks guys, but I have two HDDs... so I plan to keep one with the files on, and the other HDD to be formatted during installation. Then, later after installation completes, I'll format the first HDD an add it to the LV...
<br><br>I'll probably go ahead with the proc tonight, wish me luck :) I'll keep you updated</div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br> A. Helmy<br>
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</span></div></blockquote></div><br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr;">In the web-page supplied (which is VERY good, by the way) it says:<br><span style="font-style: italic;">Finally to enable your Linux installer in GRUB's menu, edit
the file </span><tt style="font-style: italic;"><span>F:\boot\grub\menu.lst</span></tt><span style="font-style: italic;"> adding a paragraph similar to this
one:</span>
<pre><span style="font-style: italic;">title My Linux installer of choice</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">kernel (hd0,0)/boot/your_linux_kernel_filename distribution_specific_options
<br></span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">initrd (hd0,0)/boot/your_ramdisk_filename<br></span></pre>and the contents of the isolinux.cfg file are:<br><pre>default linux<br>prompt 1<br>
timeout 600<br><br>display boot.msg<br>F1 boot.msg<br>F2 options.msg<br>F3 general.msg<br>F4 param.msg<br>F5 rescue.msg<br>label linux<br> kernel vmlinuz<br> append initrd=initrd.img <br>label text<br> kernel vmlinuz<br>
append initrd=<br>initrd.img text <br>label ks<br> kernel vmlinuz<br> append ks initrd=initrd.img<br>label local<br> localboot 1<br>label memtest86<br> kernel memtest<br> append -</pre><br>So, according to that, what should the distro specific options look like?
<br><pre><span style="font-style: italic;">title My Linux installer of choice</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
what_do_i_write_here?</span></span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img<br></span></pre></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="e" id="q_10a8a686fbcd3ea2_2">
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br> A. Helmy<br>==================<br> One Life... LIVE It<br>==================
</span></div></blockquote></div><br>Ok, nevermind that lads, Now I got to the point where the fedora core installer started (not anaconda, just the blue/red screen) and asked me how to install, i picked from http site, then it asked for the web-site name, and fedora directory...
<br><br>I already chose a good fedora mirror to work from which is:<br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><a href="http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/">http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/
</a><br><br clear="all"></span>Ok, so the installer asks me for the web-site name and the Fedora Core Directory...<br>what should I enter to that?<br><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br> A. Helmy<br>==================<br> One Life... LIVE It
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