On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 12:20 -0800, Aldo Foot wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Aldo Foot wrote: >> >> If you've already installed XP, use Gparted from the Live CD to resize >> >> the XP partition and make space for the F10 install. >> >> >> >> ~af >> > >> > The installer acts like it is going to re-size the Windows partition >> > if I just click on "Write changes to disk?" I just got to that point >> > when I received your message. >> > >> > I'm tempted to let it do it! >> > >> > Bob >> >> The action "Write changes to disk?" is not resizing the partition. It's >> either going to take all of it or use available remaining disk space. >> I may be wrong, but I think there's an option to install Fedora on the >> remaining free space of the disk (with Win already installed). >> >> If you don't mind spending another hour installing Win... let it go. >> If you don't want to take chances, get the Live CD and it will be easier. > ---- > No Aldo - resizing ntfs, ext2 or ext3 partition is indeed an > installation option. It's in the installation guide... > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f10/en_US/sn-disk-druid.html > > and it works, I know because I have used it. > > Craig Yes, it does work. I tried it myself. I've never used disk druid's option to resize ntfs partitions previously. I always choose to do custom layouts, but having the resize option it's a plus. Thanks for the tip. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
