New Dell Inspiron 9400: From Vista to Fedora/Vista

[Rodney Morris]

Nat Gross wrote:
> And now...partioning...I need your HELP.
> This is what I did so far.
> 1. Used Vista to 'shrink' two partitions.One the real ntfs part where
> Vista is installed, the other a Vista recovery partition.
> 2. Booted the fc6 dvd and am trying to partion it properly, so that
> Grub (or similar program) prompts with boot options.
>
> Here is how anaconda sees the disk (1 disk).
>                                    MB
> /dev/sda1   vfat            55           1          7
> /dev/sda2   ntfs            7240       8      930
> FREE                          3000   930     1313
> /dev/sda3   ntfs          45703   1313    7139
> FREE                        37349   7139  11901
> /dev/sda4  Extended    2048  11901  12162
>    /dev/sda5 vfat           2047  11901  12162
>
> I need a swap partion, bootloader (in addition to the one there)?, and
> main / partition.
>
> I tried letting it do everything automatically, but it complained.
> Please advise.
> Thanks
> nat
>

The problem is that an x386 machine can only have 4 primary
partitions.  According to partition table provided, your hard drive
already has 4 primary partitions defined (sda1 - sda4).  You'll have
enlarge your extended partition (sda4) to include the free space
before it.  You can then install fedora on expanded extended
partition.  Unlike their windoze counterparts, fedora /boot, /, and
swap partitions can reside on extended partitions.

Additionally, you may wish to move sda3 so that it borders sda2 to
capture the free space between sda2 and sda3.

Rod