Easier Dual Boot Install For Fedora 14?

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Sun Aug 29 17:08:40 UTC 2010


On 08/29/2010 04:27 PM, Joachim Backes wrote:
> On 08/29/2010 04:09 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> On 08/29/2010 04:05 PM, 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.
>>
>> Fedora does have gparted.
>>
>> # rpm -q gparted
>> gparted-0.6.2-1.fc13.x86_64
>>
>> May be it's not included on the install DVDs, I don't know.
>>
>> Ralf
>
> I'm in F14:
>
> rpm -qi gparted
> package gparted is not installed

What I said, also applies to f14:

# repoquery --disablerepo=fedora --disablerepo=updates \
--enablerepo=fedora-14-x86_64 --enablerepo=fedora-14-i386 \
gparted
gparted-0:0.6.2-1.fc14.i686
gparted-0:0.6.2-1.fc14.x86_64

=> gparted also is available in f14.

Ralf


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