Easier Dual Boot Install For Fedora 14?

Chris Tyler chris at tylers.info
Sun Aug 29 14:08:17 UTC 2010


On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 08:05 -0600, Greg Woods wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 07:21 -0400, Jesse Palser wrote:
> 
> > Can the dev team make it easier to install Fedora 14
> > when Windows is already installed on the same hard drive?
> 
> For that, "gparted" is required. I don't know why Fedora doesn't have
> this but Ubuntu does. To get Fedora 13 working on my new laptop, I first
> booted the Ubuntu live CD, used gparted to shrink the Windows partition,
> then went on to install Fedora in the created free space.

Actually, there is an option in the installer to shrink an existing
partition, and it seemed to work fine on the (few) NTFS partitions I've
used it on.

-Chris



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