[ale] Dual Boot WinXP Pro + Fedora Core 1 "You are probably out of disk space"

[Chris Coleman]

Nathan,

There must be a typo. Your /boot and / are both on /dev/hda3. A 9G / should be large enough to hold the OS. Not sure what the problem may be. I typically use the custom install so that I'm in control of selecting which packages are installed and partition the disk manually using Disk druid.

Chris


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From:	Nathan J. Underwood [mailto:ale1 at cybertechcafe.net]
Sent:	Fri 4/23/2004 1:38 PM
To:	ale at ale.org
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Subject:	[ale] Dual Boot WinXP Pro + Fedora Core 1 "You are probably out of disk space"
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Ok, I'm just now getting on the dual-boot bandwagon, and it's not quite
as easy as I had expected.  I'm installing on an IBM Thinkpad with a
60GB drive, and WinXP Pro is already installed on hda1 (factory load).
I used qtparted to size down the partition to 25GB, and wanted to setup
a 10GB partition for Linux (Fedora Core1).  I read through this
(http://www.hut.fi/~tkarvine/linux-windows-dual-boot-resing-ntfs.html),
but couldn't get it to install.  At the point that it should / would
normally start copying files, I get an error stating that I am probably
out of drive space.  I had setup [swap] (hda2 = 512MB), /boot (hda3 =
100MB), / (hda3 = 9[ish]GB).  So, I figured I'd dorked something up, and
restarted.  Same thing (I went as far as to delete the partitions so
that there was just the 25GB NTFS, and a blank one).  So then, blew away
those partitions (that Linux created) again, and started the install
again, this time choosing the "Personal Desktop" option.  Same error.  I
think I'm just missing something, but can't seem to figure out what it
is.  I know that there's sufficient room there (on / ) for it to
install, or should be at least.  What am I missing?
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