Installing Fedora 9 with Vista Dual Boot on Dell Studio 1555

[abhi4eternity]

I got a Dell Studio 1555 preinstalled with Vista and it already had 3 Primary Partitions.
I needed to install Fedora Core 9 on this machine and to organize my HDD(500 GB)

I had two options:
1) Either to create a fourth primary partition
2) Create an extended partition with a number of logical partitions

I chose the option 2.
I want to know if i make some free space by deleting one of the logical partitions,
can that free space be used for installing Fedora ?

Also how to proceed with the installation?

Guys please reply as soon as possible cause i need to install Linux immediately.
Thanks a lots for your help !!

[genericuser]

Depending on the manufacturer, your seemingly unused partitions can be used for microsoft system file authenticy, etc. If it were me, I would resize the primary nfts partition using a windows program (free ones are available, and windows programs are more dependable for nfts functions), and allow your linux distro to perform the default partitioning on the now unused space.

[ubuntu1986]

u can use genericuser's solution or u can delete one of the windows partitions and use that space to install linux ...all the best

[abhi4eternity]

I want to know one basic thing...
Can i install Linux on a free extended partition ?

[genericuser]

yes, you can