Hello,
I'm trying to install Fedora 18 x86 64 bit with Xfce. My computer is a HP laptop with Windows 7 installed, and I'd like to keep the Windows and have a dual boot. I downloaded the ISO image and put it on a USB flash drive with the recommended LiveUSB creator. I was able to boot into this live version immediately with no difficulty. (The GNOME live USB I made never worked. Maybe this is relevant to my problem. Otherwise it does not bother me as I prefer Xfce.)
Upon trying to install to the hard drive, my troubles began. The automatic partitioning did not work. I tried to manually add a "/boot" mount point but was told "Failure to add new device, not enough free space on disks", even though I seem to have 156.25 GB of unallocated space. How can I get past this error?
Maybe there is something wrong with my current partitions? I don't know too much about hard drives but I'm trying to be very careful: I only have one computer, and I need Windows for some important tasks. I have attached a screenshot of my Windows Disk Management. I created the unallocated space earlier by shrinking the C: volume using this Windows tool.
http://i.imgur.com/ViUgHeL.jpg
After adding /boot, /home, swap, and /, I was planning to install Fedora and then Grub 2 from Fedora. I assume this is the correct way to retain access to Windows.
Thank you very much for any help or advice you might have.
I'm trying to install Fedora 18 x86 64 bit with Xfce. My computer is a HP laptop with Windows 7 installed, and I'd like to keep the Windows and have a dual boot. I downloaded the ISO image and put it on a USB flash drive with the recommended LiveUSB creator. I was able to boot into this live version immediately with no difficulty. (The GNOME live USB I made never worked. Maybe this is relevant to my problem. Otherwise it does not bother me as I prefer Xfce.)
Upon trying to install to the hard drive, my troubles began. The automatic partitioning did not work. I tried to manually add a "/boot" mount point but was told "Failure to add new device, not enough free space on disks", even though I seem to have 156.25 GB of unallocated space. How can I get past this error?
Maybe there is something wrong with my current partitions? I don't know too much about hard drives but I'm trying to be very careful: I only have one computer, and I need Windows for some important tasks. I have attached a screenshot of my Windows Disk Management. I created the unallocated space earlier by shrinking the C: volume using this Windows tool.
http://i.imgur.com/ViUgHeL.jpg
After adding /boot, /home, swap, and /, I was planning to install Fedora and then Grub 2 from Fedora. I assume this is the correct way to retain access to Windows.
Thank you very much for any help or advice you might have.