F9 installation

[Jerry Feldman]

On 11/06/2008 01:44 PM, Germán Racca wrote:
>
> Hi all:
>
> I want to install Fedora 9 in a computer that already has Fedora 8,
> but in a seprate place, just to have 2 different versions in one computer.
> I new that in order to do it, I will have to create or resize a partition.
> Well, when I run the installation DVD for Fedora 9 I get the following
> screen:
>
> Drive /dev/sda (114471 MB) (Model: ATA SAMSUNG HD120IJ)
> ____________________________________________________________
> sda2
> 114274 MB
> ____________________________________________________________
>
>    DEVICE            MOUNT POINT/VOLUME    TYPE    SIZE (MB)
>
> LVM Volume Groups
>   
> VolGroup00                                                                           
> 114272
>     
> LogVol00                                                            
> ext3         113216
>     
> LogVol01                                                            
> swap           1024
>
> Hard Drives
>   /dev/sda
>     
> /dev/sda1                                                             
> ext3            196
>     /dev/sda2                      VolGroup00              LVM PV     
> 114275
>
> I have tried to do a lot of thing but no success. How could I get a space
> of approximately 30 GB to install another Linux, in my case Fedora 9?
I think Aldo gave you a decent answer. You are stuck with LVM, but you 
still should be able to set up for a dual boot.
Problem 1 is /dev/sda1 is set up as your /boot partition. You will 
probably need to share this which means some manual editing of 
/boot/grub/grub.conf.
Resizing of an LVM logical partition can be accomplished via the 
system-config-lvm graphical LVM utility. Or you can use the 
nonm-graphical commands, such as resize2fs and lvm.

However possibly a better way might be to use a virtual machine, such as 
virtual box, and install Fedora 9 in virtualbox.

-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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