Hi All,
I recently purchased a HP Pavilion G6-2005AX laptop. The laptop came with Windows 7 Home Basic pre-installed.
I have already partitioned the hard drive and created a 100 GB free space for installation of Fedora 17.
System is able to detect the F17 DVD and starts booting from it.
When I select install F17, it goes forward and shows the Fedora installation screens.
It goes smoothly till the time I have to choose what space on hard drive should be used for installation. I select "Use Free Space" and click next. It starts checking the drive and then comes back with the error, no free space for installation of Fedora!!! :blink: :confused:
I have never faced this kind of any issue before while creating a dual boot system.
This is not the first time I have created dual boot system, in my old laptop I run Windows XP and Fedora 16 in dual boot.
I am do not have any clues as to how F17 is not able to detect the 100 GB free space that I have created on the disk!
Need your help to sort out this issue...
Specs of the laptop are here
-- Rinjo
---------- Post added at 11:20 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:14 PM ----------
Checked some other posts on the installation forum and figured out what was going from with my installation.
There were already 4 primary partitions and F17 installation was not able to detect the one on which it required to install. :doh:
Deleted a couple of primary partitions and then created extended partition (hence creating free space) on which F17 got installed successfully. :dance:
The issue is resolved...
I recently purchased a HP Pavilion G6-2005AX laptop. The laptop came with Windows 7 Home Basic pre-installed.
I have already partitioned the hard drive and created a 100 GB free space for installation of Fedora 17.
System is able to detect the F17 DVD and starts booting from it.
When I select install F17, it goes forward and shows the Fedora installation screens.
It goes smoothly till the time I have to choose what space on hard drive should be used for installation. I select "Use Free Space" and click next. It starts checking the drive and then comes back with the error, no free space for installation of Fedora!!! :blink: :confused:
I have never faced this kind of any issue before while creating a dual boot system.
This is not the first time I have created dual boot system, in my old laptop I run Windows XP and Fedora 16 in dual boot.
I am do not have any clues as to how F17 is not able to detect the 100 GB free space that I have created on the disk!
Need your help to sort out this issue...
Specs of the laptop are here
-- Rinjo
---------- Post added at 11:20 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:14 PM ----------
Checked some other posts on the installation forum and figured out what was going from with my installation.
There were already 4 primary partitions and F17 installation was not able to detect the one on which it required to install. :doh:
Deleted a couple of primary partitions and then created extended partition (hence creating free space) on which F17 got installed successfully. :dance:
The issue is resolved...