On Friday 28 January 2005 10:21 am, Charles Li flailed at a keyboard and produced this: > I was trying to install core 3, but the installer > saids not free partition. The laptop has a 80GB > harddrive formated by XP, it had around 40GB of free > space. What are my options. It's not sufficient that it have 40GB of free space. It needs to be partitioned properly. Use a partitioning tool (I like "Partition Magic") to create a separate Linux Native (ext2 or ext3) partition for your FC3 installation. Once that partition is created, your disks should install FC3 just fine. Be careful that you don't overwrite your Windows partition when you install it, as I almost did had I not double-checked the options on that screen. I would *very seriously* recommend getting a nice thick book about Fedora Core 3 (I think Que has a "Fedora Core 3 Bible") which should have a good chapter explaining this partitioning thing. I don't say this to be pedantic or condescending; I gather that you're very new to Fedora Core 3, and books such as these really helped me figure out what I was doing years ago (back when I was using Red Hat 7.2). If I misunderstand your experience level, I apologize. -- Slainte, Richard S. Crawford (mailto: rscrawford@xxxxxxxxxxxx) AIM: Buffalo2K / http://www.mossroot.com "You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus." -Mark Twain GPG Public Key located at: http://www.mossroot.com/rscrawford.asc
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