On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 03:24:44PM +0000, Alastair McKinley wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am currently running FC4 on my T43 laptop. I really want to upgrade > to FC6, however I have a couple of problems. Firstly, I dont have the > Bios password to boot a CD, my sysadmin has it, and if I want him to > do it I will have to wait some considerable time, and I want to > install it myself anyway! I take it this is a Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad. If so, you may find some useful advice on http://www.thinkwiki.org. > > Secdonly, I have no free space on my disk. I have a 40G winxp > partition which I rarely use, I normally boot xp under vmplayer. This > partition has 31G free on it, does anyone know if partition magic or > some other tool can shrink an ntfs partition on the fly? (Remember no > bios password!) Assuming you solve the password problem, see http://www.charlescurley.com/Lenovo.R51.html for how I did it, and some other resources. > Will 25G or so be enough for a full FC6 install? Yes; plenty. See the release notes. > I keep most of my data on an external drive so that doesnt matter > too much. > > So what I think I want is to leave my FC4 partition as it is, shrink > my xp partition and install FC^ in the free space, how does that > sound? Will my current grub setup be able to boot FC6 ok? Yes. Be sure that you install grub from one and only one Linux system at a time, or else see to it that you keep the two grub.confs coherent. > > Heres my partition table: > > Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-76319.085 megabytes > Disk label type: msdos > Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags > 1 0.031 40967.226 primary ntfs boot > 3 40967.227 51214.570 primary fat32 lba > 4 51214.570 72270.351 extended lba > 5 51214.601 52499.179 logical > 6 52499.210 72270.351 logical ext3 > 2 72270.352 76316.132 primary fat32 Yup, looks like a Lenovo hard drive layout to me. But why is it showing up as sda instead of hda? -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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