Hello,

I am trying to do a dual boot installation of Fedora 2 on a Windows XP box.
I have a 20 gig hard drive and have split it into 2 (roughly) equal
partitions with Partition magic.


While installing from the CD I have chosen the "Keep all partitions and use
existing space" option. I then get a message that Partitioning failed. It
says that I have not defined a Root (/) Partition.

Can anybody tell me how to do this?

Thanks .... James

Jumbo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to do a dual boot installation of Fedora 2 on a Windows XP
> box. I have a 20 gig hard drive and have split it into 2 (roughly)
> equal partitions with Partition magic.
>
>
> While installing from the CD I have chosen the "Keep all partitions and
> use existing space" option. I then get a message that Partitioning
> failed. It says that I have not defined a Root (/) Partition.
>
After choosing the "Keep all partitions and use existing space" option,
you have to name the two partitions for Linux and tell it what file system
type to use. Actually, you should set up three partitions, the third being
a swap partition whose size is often set to double your RAM size. With
Fedora or Red Hat, you should probably use their "Disk Druid" to do this.

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"Jumbo" <jumbo_au@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I am trying to do a dual boot installation of Fedora 2 on a Windows XP
> box. I have a 20 gig hard drive and have split it into 2 (roughly) equal
> partitions with Partition magic.
>
>
> While installing from the CD I have chosen the "Keep all partitions and
> use existing space" option. I then get a message that Partitioning failed.
> It says that I have not defined a Root (/) Partition.
>
> Can anybody tell me how to do this?

Besides the other good note, I strongly suggest using Fedora Core 3 instead,
unless the box is very slow.

Jumbo wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to do a dual boot installation of Fedora 2 on a Windows XP
> box. I have a 20 gig hard drive and have split it into 2 (roughly) equal
> partitions with Partition magic.
>
You better just resize the windows partition, leaving unpartitioned "free
space" on the drive, and let the linux installer do the remainder of the
job (which will be creating a swap and at least a / partition, with /home
recommended to be a separate one).

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