On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 07:21 -0400, Baskar Selvaraj wrote: > > I have fedora on my system with the following > partitions: /, /home, /var > > and swap. Also some free space. I wanted to install another distro > in > > the free space. First I tried with mint - it said that no > preexisting > > installation exists and wanted to format the disk afresh. Next I > tried > > with Mandriva - this recognised the existing partitions, but I could > not > > find any option to make it install in the free space. Any one has > some > > experience in this? > > > > > Can you post of output of fdisk -l to see the partition information of > your > hdd.
[root@xlquest lawgon]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00088787 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 143362047 71680000 83 Linux /dev/sda2 143362048 215042047 35840000 83 Linux /dev/sda3 215042048 223234047 4096000 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda4 223234048 312581807 44673880 5 Extended /dev/sda5 223236096 312580095 44672000 83 Linux -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
