Paul Cartwright <ale <at> pcartwright.com> writes: > > On Sun August 1 2010, JB wrote: > > You can consider nuking everything except Win XP partition and then > > organize it properly for the next 10 years or so ... with smartly > > preallocated primary partitions and the extended one. > > Somehaow I hope that this would get rid of that cfdisk error message as > > well. > > did that. Booted into windows, removed the linux partitions. booted liveCD, > fdisk /dev/sda, nuked the sda5 that was still there, so I was left with just > sda1 NTFS. doubled-clicked the INSTALL FEDORA icon... NOW I get to the custom > install screen!!!!!! > so I added a 2GB swap, 15GB / ext4, and, I forget, about 35GB /home ext4. Not > gonna get into LVM right now.... > installing as we speak. > then, on to church, so I'll be away from my laptop for a while:) > Oh my God, ... I mean wonders happen if you really try :-))) Btw, settle down with regular partitions layout first. Forget LVM for now, it may get you into trouble again ... Let us know about that 'cfdisk' FATAL ERROR too ... Good luck. JB -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
