Dear All, The problem solved.
I have to remove one of the Dell factory partitions to install Linux. Here is what I did 1. Shrink the hard drive with Win 7 to give free space for Linux 2. Delete the READER partition (Did not touch the Dell Utility, OS and Recovery partitions) 3. Install from DVD using Free space. Thanks for all the suggestions. Tongqing Tongqing Zhou, Ph.D. Staff Scientist Structural Biology Section Vaccine Research Center, NIAID/NIH Building 40, Room 4607B 40 Convent Drive, MSC3027 Bethesda, MD 20892 (301) 594-8710 (Tel) (301) 793-0794 (Cell) (301) 480-2658 (Fax) ****************************************************************** The information in this e-mail and any of its attachments is confidential and may contain sensitive information. It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage devices. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shall not accept liability for any statements made that are sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of the NIAID by one of its representatives. ****************************************************************** Zhou, Tongqing (NIH/VRC) [E] wrote: > Dear All, > > > > I am trying to set up a dual boot system on a new Dell laptop factory > installed with 64-bit Windows 7 professional. > > > > Model: Dell Latitude E6410 > > OS: Windows 7 Professional > > MEM: 8G > > CPU: Corei7 > > HD: 500GB > > > > I first shrank the HD with Win7 to give ~250GB space to the new OS, I > then installed from DVD, so far, I tested Red Hat 5 workstation, > Fedora 13, Ubantu 10, all of them complained that I don't have enough > space to put partition.....Further googling found out that DELL had put > some hidden partitions (Dell Utility, Recovery, and a partition named > READER) on the HD and there is a limit to 4 primary partitions. > > > > Did anyone have any success? > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Tongqing > > > > *Tongqing Zhou, Ph.D. * > > Staff Scientist > > Structural Biology Section > > Vaccine Research Center, NIAID/NIH > > Building 40, Room 4607B > > 40 Convent Drive, MSC3027 > > Bethesda, MD 20892 > > (301) 594-8710 (Tel) > > (301) 793-0794 (Cell) > > (301) 480-2658 (Fax) > > */******************************************************************/* > // > > */The information in this e-mail and any of its attachments is > confidential and may contain sensitive information. It should not be > used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have > received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it > from your mailbox or any other storage devices. National Institute of > Allergy and Infectious Diseases shall not accept liability for any > statements made that are sender's own and not expressly made on behalf > of the NIAID by one of its representatives./* > > */******************************************************************/* > > > -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dr. Christian Biertümpfel Laboratory of Molecular Biology NIDDK/National Institutes of Health phone: +1 301 402 4647 9000 Rockville Pike, Bldg. 5, Rm. B1-03 fax: +1 301 496 0201 Bethesda, MD 20892-0580 USA email: biertumpf...@niddk.nih.gov _______________________________________________________________________
