On 2/17/08, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 00:31 -0500, Mike Chalmers wrote: > > I wasn't aware that the Toshiba recovery discs gave you the option to > > partition the disc, that is why I asked. I thought that recovery discs > > automatically took up the whole hard drive. > > > I don't know whether *they* do. They weren't mentioned in the message > that I replied to. You'd have to check on yours, or simply try it, to > see what options you get. > > I can imagine recovery discs restoring a system to how it was when you > bought it. In my case, on an Asus system, the initial setup was a 5 gig > recovery partition, half the drive as the OS, remainder as a spare > partition. But I appear to have an ordinary Vista install disc, so I'd > expect to be asked how I wanted to set up the drive. > > You can try pre-partitioning using Linux, and hoping that a Windows > install may just use already set-up partitions. > > > -- > (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's > important to the thread.) > > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > I think my best bet is to install Windows using the recovery discs and see if it has a partition option. If it does not then I will use a partition program to resize the partition and then install Linux. Thanks, Preston
