Regd Installation of FC- 6

[pavan kumar]

Hi Experts

I am trying to dual boot FC -6  on my Windows XP, Intel Core 2 Duo m/c with 512 MB Ram ..
I have 20 GB free Space on Windows XP ...

I got strucked up during Installing Saying

"Unable to Create  Primary Partition (/) .. No Freee space on the disk" ...

Plz help me out ...

Thanks and Regards
Pavan Kumar. N
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[Tim]

On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 12:48 +0530, pavan kumar wrote:
> I am trying to dual boot FC -6  on my Windows XP, Intel Core 2 Duo m/c
> with 512 MB Ram ..
> I have 20 GB free Space on Windows XP ...
>
> I got strucked up during Installing Saying
>
> "Unable to Create  Primary Partition (/) .. No Freee space on the
> disk" ...

Is your 20 gigs free space part of the drive partitions you're using
with Windows, or something separate.

If it's part of a current Windows partition, you'd need to shrink the
current partition down (which can be done without destroying data, but
the risk is still there).  Then you'd create new partitions for Linux in
the freed space.

If your free space is really spare drive space, and it's not showing up,
that's another issue to diagnose.

[pavan kumar]

Tim,
The 20 gigs freee space is in WIndows (NTFS) ...
But When I try the option "Automatically Partition" , it doesnt work
> From: [e-mail]> To: [e-mail]> Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 17:13:37 +0930> Subject: Re: Regd Installation of FC- 6> > On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 12:48 +0530, pavan kumar wrote:> > I am trying to dual boot FC -6 on my Windows XP, Intel Core 2 Duo m/c> > with 512 MB Ram ..> > I have 20 GB free Space on Windows XP ...> > > > I got strucked up during Installing Saying> > > > "Unable to Create Primary Partition (/) .. No Freee space on the> > disk" ...> > Is your 20 gigs free space part of the drive partitions you're using> with Windows, or something separate.> > If it's part of a current Windows partition, you'd need to shrink the> current partition down (which can be done without destroying data, but> the risk is still there). Then you'd create new partitions for Linux in> the freed space.> > If your free space is really spare drive space, and it's not showing up,> that's another issue to diagnose.> > -- > (This PC runs FC4, my others FC5 & FC6, in case that's important> to the thread)> > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.> I read messages from the public lists.> > -- > fedora-list mailing list> [e-mail]> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

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[Manuel Aróstegui]

On Tuesday 04 September 2007 10:22:14 pavan kumar wrote:
> Tim,
> The 20 gigs freee space is in WIndows (NTFS) ...
> But When I try the option "Automatically Partition" , it doesnt work

So, as Tim said, you need to shrink the NTFS partition and once you have the 
free space, use it to format that free space into ext3, reiserfs or anything 
you want.

Manuel

[Tim]

On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 13:52 +0530, pavan kumar wrote:
> The 20 gigs freee space is in WIndows (NTFS) ...

Okay, that's not directly of use to Linux.  That's free space within a
file system.  You need free space outside of it.  i.e. A new partition.
> But When I try the option "Automatically Partition" , it doesnt work

That only works with allocating drive space, it doesn't deal with
re-organising space that's in use and you want to keep.

Have a google around for some instructions in shrinking an NTFS
partition, and write back if you can't figure out how to do it.  It'd be
best if you write back saying what you did *and* didn't understand about
it.  The basic idea is that you defrag the partition, to organise all
the data together, then shrink the partition down to some size greater
than needed to store that data, while leaving space for your alternative
installation.  Then you create Linux partitions within the freed space.

I did it on a FAT32 drive years ago, without any major dramas.  I don't
recall the name of the tool, but it came with a Red Hat 6.0 Linux disc
(yes, it was that long ago).  Hence why I hesitate to be the one to
advise how to go about doing it.

[Mikkel]

Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 13:52 +0530, pavan kumar wrote:
> > The 20 gigs freee space is in WIndows (NTFS) ...
>
> Okay, that's not directly of use to Linux.  That's free space within a
> file system.  You need free space outside of it.  i.e. A new partition.
> > But When I try the option "Automatically Partition" , it doesnt work
>
> That only works with allocating drive space, it doesn't deal with
> re-organising space that's in use and you want to keep.
>
> Have a google around for some instructions in shrinking an NTFS
> partition, and write back if you can't figure out how to do it.  It'd be
> best if you write back saying what you did *and* didn't understand about
> it.  The basic idea is that you defrag the partition, to organise all
> the data together, then shrink the partition down to some size greater
> than needed to store that data, while leaving space for your alternative
> installation.  Then you create Linux partitions within the freed space.
>
> I did it on a FAT32 drive years ago, without any major dramas.  I don't
> recall the name of the tool, but it came with a Red Hat 6.0 Linux disc
> (yes, it was that long ago).  Hence why I hesitate to be the one to
> advise how to go about doing it.

A couple of links that may help:

http://www.linuxmigration.com/quickref/install/disk.html
http://man.linux-ntfs.org/ntfsresize.8.html

I am not sure if ntfsresize is on the live CD or not. I know I have
used it on the NTFS on my laptop to make room to install Fedora, and
I did not have problems. But I would make a backup before trying it.
I did it on a new system after making a Ghost image of it.

Mikkel