dual boot w/ fc12 and windows 7

[henry7849]

I've gotten useful advice from this forum.
Appreciate people's efforts.

My current task is to add windows 7 to fc12. From other postings it seems the next step
is to use the fc12 install disk to create a windows partition from the unused space.
Could someone inform me about whether this will delete my current installation
of fc12 and my home directory.

thx.,
henry.

[devils casper]

Windows OS installation in a disk having Linux already installed doesn't work in a few machines. Windows OS must be installed in first Primary Partition of Hard disk.
We have to check partition structure of your Hard disk. Boot up Fedora 12 and execute this code in Terminal :

su -
/sbin/fdisk -l

Post output here.

* Its small L in /sbin/fdisk -l.

[henry7849]

The result of fdisk -l is the following:

Disk /dev/sda: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x8a427ea7

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1           5       40131   de  Dell Utility
/dev/sda2   *           6        1295    10360832    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3            1295        7670    51200000    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4            7670       91202   670971904    5  Extended
/dev/sda5            7670        7733      512000   83  Linux
/dev/sda6            7734       91202   670457856   8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/dm-0: 53.7 GB, 53687091200 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 6527 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 5536 MB, 5536481280 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 673 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-2: 627.3 GB, 627300106240 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 76264 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-2 doesn't contain a valid partition table

[yancek]

In your first post, you indicate your intention to install windows 7 with your current Fedora. You neglected to mention you had windows already. Your fdisk output shows the Dell Utility partition (sda1) as well as two windows (ntfs) partitions, sda2 and sda3. What is on those partitions? Some other version of windows? Just data? Do you want to install windows 7 to replace those partitions or on other partitions?

[henry7849]

Thanks, I hadn't used fdisk before. I now see my problem is partially solved.
Windows 7 is installed and works fine.

The 2nd part of my question is: what is the current size of fc13 and what is
the expected growth rate?

thanks,
henry

[yancek]

The 2nd part of my question is: what is the current size of fc13 and what is
the expected growth rate?

I'm not really sure what you mean by this. Use a terminal in Fedora and run the command: df -h and it will show size of partitions and % used and available. Growth rate? Depends on what you install. Not sure this is what you mean?

[nujinini]

Yes, yancek is right. Depends on what you would be installing.

If you have a separate partition for data, and would just be installing some media players and open office, you'll be safe with 12 - 15 G. IMHO

[henry7849]

From the output above of fdisk, looks as though sda4 and sda6 have 670G.
1. Do they refer to the same thing? I only have 1 750G hard drive.
2. Is it recommended that the 670G be repartitioned to 30G for linux
and 640G for data. I think that's what someone said but I didn't know
if I should repartition to acheive this.

henry

[MikeTbob]

From the output above of fdisk, looks as though sda4 and sda6 have 670G.
1. Do they refer to the same thing? I only have 1 750G hard drive.
2. Is it recommended that the 670G be repartitioned to 30G for linux
and 640G for data. I think that's what someone said but I didn't know
if I should repartition to acheive this.

henry

1. Sda4 is an extended partition that contains sda5 /boot and sda6 /LVM
2. That sounds like a good plan, you have plenty of space that's for sure.

[henry7849]

I don't mean to sound as if I'm a blank slate. My background is computer science
just not system admin. So, my question is what are the reasons why a person
should split up his HD so there's a separate partition for swap, linux os, and home directories?

henry