Charles, How much free disk space do you have to do the install on? I usually put windoze (if I have to have it) on about a 20G partition, then put Fedora on afterwards. Once you have Windows AND some free space for Linux, the installer sees the drive and you can install it without bothering the windoze partition. I guess what I am saying is, if you have a 160 gig C drive and nothing else, you are gonna want to resize that partition. The smart way would just be to do an install again and this time specify that you are giving Windows 60 G and saving the other 100 for Linux or something like that. Alternatively you can look around for some other partition resizing utlitity software, but that'll probably cost you some bucks - unnecessary bucks at this point. With a 2 day old computer you shouldn't have too much data to worry about saving at this point, so that's a good thing. The best I can tell you to do would be to play around with the ways you download and especially to get a bittorrent client so that nothing will go wrong with the download. Also there are windows based md5sum utilities that you can use to scientifically verify that the FC3<diskone>.iso image (or whatever) is the same as the image available for download. If the long string of digits is differrent, then your downloads are a problem and you should continue to troubleshoot from there (or download somewhere else such as at work). You were correct in the assumption that Knoppix won't touch your hard drive - provided you get a good burn on the .iso image. However it sounds like your burning is suspect. There is a differrence between the way you burn things - either as a .iso image, or as a file. I know that sounds like I am saying the same thing but when you have it as a .iso on the cdrom you should be able to mount the cdrom (even in windows), and go into subdirectories and see files. If, on the other hand, if you burn it incorrectly, when you put it into Windows for example to see what is on it, everything will look like it is one big file. Once you are fairly certain that isn't the problem, then you can do the install confident that the Fedora installer, anaconda, will confirm you as you go as to what you want to do. Pay attention to the default partition setup and notice that it will leave your XP partition alone. All you need is some free space and some good solid (known good) iso's to install from, and it will take care of the rest for you. Also, it is worth noting that in a dual boot scenario it is imperative not to try loading Linux first - the windows installer wants to take over the world, (ie blow away your linux) as it obviously tried to do with your hard drive. 160 G C: drive? Mama mia! :) So the order is correct as you have it, windows first, then linux. HTH, Marc On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:59:53 -0800 (PST), Charles Malespin <cmalespin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > I have been trying to get XP and FC2 to run a dual boot. I have read up > and seen all the problems and solutions to the bug caused by using XP, and I > THINK I may have got it figured out. Now my only problem is to partition my > hard drive. I downloaded knoppix and made a boot CD, but when I try to boot > from it all it says is "missing OS". I dont know what I did wrong to get > that. I thought that I could just run it off the CD without needing linux > on my computer. I have a 160Gb single hard drive C:/ that has been > defragmented and it looks like most of the data is near the begining(with > the exception of one strip of contiguous files about 1/3 of the way from the > begining). I am really new with this stuff and I dont know much of anything > about partitioning. Plus this is a brand new(2 days) computer so I dont > want to delete anything.... Any help would be appreciated.(please make it > as "simple" as possible though!) > Thanks in advance, > Charles > > ________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > >
