anthony crage wrote:
After the tech reformatted the HDD, he split our 45 gig HDD into 2 partitions: a 30 gig and a 15. So, it registers as this in windows:
A:\ floppy
C:\ 30 gig partition
D:\ a second 6 gig HDD
E:\ 15 gig partition
F:\ cd-rw
G:\ cd-rom
Here is a guide to installing RedHat 9... unless there have been major changes to anaconda (the program that guides you through the installation), the guide should be fairly applicable to Fedora.
http://linux.about.com/library/bl/dist/redhat/bldist_redhat_inst.htm
The two things that you should focus your reading on is: 1. disk partitioning 2. boot loader configuration
Anaconda should recognize that windows is installed on the computer.
If your E:\ drive is formatted (if you can actually use it), then you may need to manually setup your partitions with Disk Druid.
If your E:\ drive is unformatted free space, then you can have anaconda automatically partition the remaining space.
If you manually partition your drive with Disk Druid, then
1. Make sure you are not deleting one of the windows partitions! :) Look at the sizes of the partitions... you should be able to see which one is the 16GB partition.
2. You will need to break that partition up into two partitions:
A) Swap partition (the size should be 2x the memory of your system)
B) A parition with a mount point of "/". I suggest using the ext3 filesystem for this.
You can create other partitions, but I don't want to confuse you here.
If windows is already installed, then the boot loader configuration will likely see that windows is there and you probably not have to do anything special.
(The boot loader is a piece of software that starts when the computer is booted before an operating system is started. The boot loader lets you choose what operating system the computer should boot.)
-Tim
