Installing Fedora 17

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 06/20/2012 09:30:06 AM, Greg Woods wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 07:58 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> 
> > > Geoffrey Leach <geoff at hughes.net> wrote:
> 
> > > >No. What I'm dealing with is a naked, never-before-seeing-fedora
> > > disk. 
> > > >(there are a couple of ntfs partitions put there by the 
> > > manufacturer.
> 
> Most manufacturer-delivered disks that I have seen allocate the 
> entire
> disk to Windows. Are you sure there is actually free space left on 
> the
> disk to allocate? Once anaconda has started, you can press CTRL-ALT-
> F2
> and get to a shell. Then you can run something like "fdisk -l
> /dev/sda"
> to see how the disk is partitioned.
> 
> What I had to do in a similar situation was run "gparted" (from a
> bootable live CD; I actually used an Ubuntu live CD even though I was
> preparing to install Fedora, just because the Ubuntu CD comes with
> gparted ready to go). Using gparted, I could shrink down the main
> windows partition to make room for some Linux partitions. That 
> allowed
> me to preserve the manufacturer-installed Windows system and also
> install Fedora.

Windows seemed to think that there was available space, but then, 
that's windows :-) The mfg in this case (Puget Systems) is pretty good 
about following instructions, but again, trust but verify.

I didn't know about ctl-alt-f2. I'tt try that for a check. Thanks.