Thank you, that is what I thought it probably was - I just wanted some confirmation before doing something I couldn't undo..... -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of B Hung Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 10:04 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: F11 live CD install Q re dual boot partitioning On 10/07/2009 11:25 AM, Quinney, Matthew wrote: > When installing F11 from the Live CD, during the partitioning for dual > boot, there is a box labeled "volume to shrink" with a drop down menu > for the volume and a size box labeled "shrink target(in MB)". Is this > the size by which to shrink the original volume or is it the size to > which the volume will be shrunk. It is kind of an important > distinction if you want to preserve what you originally had, but I > have not been able to figure that out from an afternoon of looking > through docs and past list questions (perhaps I'm not searching using > the right phrases?). > > Thanks, Matt > > Hi Matt, I just did an 'install to hard drive' from F11-Live to an Acer Netbook with Vista on the entire disk. I pondered over the same question for awhile... Since the netbook has a recovery partition, so I went ahead and made an educated guess. If I remember right, the 'volume to shrink' indicates the size of the original Vista partition and the 'shrink target' box has the current Vista usage. So I took the 'volume to shrink' size minus the size of new F11 partition and enter that number in the 'shrink target' field. Everything worked out OK and a new F11 was installed without a hitch... -- Bob -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
