helved packard pavilion 500

Fri Mar 13 12:24:15 UTC 2015

I found here the solution to my problem:
https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/29/coming-in-fedora-21-more-installer-partitioning-improvements/

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Angelo Moreschini <
mrangelo.fedora at gmail.com> wrote:

> /dev/sda6   =-->    is the new partition that I recently created with file
> system type ext4
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Angelo Moreschini <
> mrangelo.fedora at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hi David,
>>
>> I would like to know if the memory configuration must be done (this causes
>> me confusion)
>>
>>    - before starting the installation process,
>>    - or be made during the installation process
>>    - or, finally, if it can be done in both cases
>>
>>
>> Are you preparing to install Fedora 21 ? Yes I am installing Fedora 21
>>
>> 500 GB is way large enough   Ok what happened - happened (I say now)
>> ......
>>
>> Then I would be making a backup of your disk No matter for the data it
>> is nothing on the computer now, I bought few day ago...
>>
>> I would use a bootable gparted CD to resize the main windows partition to
>> leave the space you want for your linux installations YES I have a
>> bootable gparted
>>
>>
>> It would help if we were able to see how the disk is currently partitioned
>>
>> this is the output of # fdisk -l /dev/sda:
>>
>> --------------------------------------
>>
>> disk /dev/sda : 931.5 GiB  1.000.204.886.016 bytes  19.535.525.168 sectors
>>
>> Units : sectors of 1*512 = 512 bytes
>>
>> Sector size (logical/physic) 512 bytes / 409 bytes
>>
>> disklabel type : gpt
>>
>> Disk identifier : 57CA xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> device                 start                         end
>> sectors         size                 type
>>
>> /dev/sda1              2.048                      2.048
>> 2.095.104     1.023   M     Microsoft recovery environment
>>
>> /dev/sda2        2.097.152               2.097.152
>> 737.280       360   M     EFI system
>>
>> /dev/sda3        2.834.432               2.834.432              262.144
>>     128   M     Microsoft reserved
>>
>> /dev/sda4       30.096.576              3.096.576        921.841.664
>>   439.6 G     Microsoft basic data
>>
>> /dev/sda5   1.931.636.736       1.953.513.471          21.876.736
>> 10.4 G     Microsoft basic data
>>
>> /dev/sda6      924.938.240       1.931.636.735     1.006.698.496
>> 480 G      Linux file system
>>
>> ---------------------------------
>>
>> Thank you very much for your answer
>>
>> Angelo
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 2:18 PM, David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/03/15 21:22, Angelo Moreschini wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> > I do not see a chance to interact with the program to implement the
>>> > required choices.
>>> Are you preparing to install Fedora 21 ?
>>>
>>> 500 GB is way large enough, for example my current installation of the
>>> system partitions is: df -h
>>>
>>> Filesystem                Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>> /dev/sda3                  39G   27G  9.4G  75% /
>>> /dev/sda1                 2.0G  604M  1.3G  33% /boot
>>> /dev/sdc2                  40G   34G  5.9G  86% /var
>>>   (I have /var on a separate disk and partition due to the main disk
>>> being an SSD; this avoids potential problems with data on /var that is
>>> often being re-written. It also contains package mockbuild caches for
>>> F19,F20,F21, EL5, EL6, EL7 totaling 4.8GB, and some virtual machines.)
>>>
>>> /dev/mapper/vg1-home_vg1  643G  643G  713M 100% /home
>>>   (could be as small as say 20G; you may also like to mount your windows
>>> partition to use data files from it - this would give more space).
>>>
>>> I have 3577 rpm packages installed. [rpm -qa|wc -l], so this is quite a
>>> large install.
>>>
>>>
>>> > And, in the case I need to prepare the partitions in one way
>>> > differentthan I already prepared, I do not know how to do this ...
>>> It would help if we were able to see how the disk is currently
>>> partitioned. You could boot a Fedora rescue image (to text mode), and
>>> then list the current layout of the first sata disk by:
>>> # fdisk -l /dev/sda
>>> , and reply to the list with that info.
>>>
>>> Then I would be making a backup of your disk. If you haven't done much
>>> in windows, then this might only be a DVD or 2 worth of space.
>>>
>>> Next, I would use a bootable gparted CD to resize the main windows
>>> partition to leave the space you want for your linux installations. I've
>>> done this quite often without trouble, but better to backup then be
>>> sorry if it doesn't work.
>>>
>>> Once there is space to add your new Fedora partitions in, we can provide
>>> some info on how to set custom partitioning during Fedora install.
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>>
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