hi David, I would like to know if the memory configuration must be done (this causes me confusion)
- before starting the installation process, - or be made during the installation process - or, finally, if it can be done in both cases Are you preparing to install Fedora 21 ? Yes I am installing Fedora 21 500 GB is way large enough Ok what happened - happened (I say now) ...... Then I would be making a backup of your disk No matter for the data it is nothing on the computer now, I bought few day ago... I would use a bootable gparted CD to resize the main windows partition to leave the space you want for your linux installations YES I have a bootable gparted It would help if we were able to see how the disk is currently partitioned this is the output of # fdisk -l /dev/sda: -------------------------------------- disk /dev/sda : 931.5 GiB 1.000.204.886.016 bytes 19.535.525.168 sectors Units : sectors of 1*512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physic) 512 bytes / 409 bytes disklabel type : gpt Disk identifier : 57CA xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx device start end sectors size type /dev/sda1 2.048 2.048 2.095.104 1.023 M Microsoft recovery environment /dev/sda2 2.097.152 2.097.152 737.280 360 M EFI system /dev/sda3 2.834.432 2.834.432 262.144 128 M Microsoft reserved /dev/sda4 30.096.576 3.096.576 921.841.664 439.6 G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda5 1.931.636.736 1.953.513.471 21.876.736 10.4 G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda6 924.938.240 1.931.636.735 1.006.698.496 480 G Linux file system --------------------------------- Thank you very much for your answer Angelo On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 2:18 PM, David Timms <dti...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > On 12/03/15 21:22, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > > ... > > > I do not see a chance to interact with the program to implement the > > required choices. > Are you preparing to install Fedora 21 ? > > 500 GB is way large enough, for example my current installation of the > system partitions is: df -h > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda3 39G 27G 9.4G 75% / > /dev/sda1 2.0G 604M 1.3G 33% /boot > /dev/sdc2 40G 34G 5.9G 86% /var > (I have /var on a separate disk and partition due to the main disk > being an SSD; this avoids potential problems with data on /var that is > often being re-written. It also contains package mockbuild caches for > F19,F20,F21, EL5, EL6, EL7 totaling 4.8GB, and some virtual machines.) > > /dev/mapper/vg1-home_vg1 643G 643G 713M 100% /home > (could be as small as say 20G; you may also like to mount your windows > partition to use data files from it - this would give more space). > > I have 3577 rpm packages installed. [rpm -qa|wc -l], so this is quite a > large install. > > > > And, in the case I need to prepare the partitions in one way > > differentthan I already prepared, I do not know how to do this ... > It would help if we were able to see how the disk is currently > partitioned. You could boot a Fedora rescue image (to text mode), and > then list the current layout of the first sata disk by: > # fdisk -l /dev/sda > , and reply to the list with that info. > > Then I would be making a backup of your disk. If you haven't done much > in windows, then this might only be a DVD or 2 worth of space. > > Next, I would use a bootable gparted CD to resize the main windows > partition to leave the space you want for your linux installations. I've > done this quite often without trouble, but better to backup then be > sorry if it doesn't work. > > Once there is space to add your new Fedora partitions in, we can provide > some info on how to set custom partitioning during Fedora install. > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >
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