LVM, the Linux Logical Volume Manager , is the default disk partitioning scheme in Fedora 17, but disk space allocation to the logical volumes could be better. Take the image below, for example, which was taken from a test installation of Fedora 17 KDE.
It shows the default disk space allocation to the logical volumes. In addition, there are three logical volumes see the top of section of the image. Notice that there are no free space available. That is because Anaconda allocates all available disk space to the logical volumes, when it is supposed to allocate just enough to install the system, especially to the root logical volume. For a desktop system, allocating 51 GB to the root logical volume is a waste of disk space.
The point of this tutorial, then, is to show how to dual-boot Fedora 17 and Windows 7 on a computer with two hard drives, with proper disk allocation to the logical volumes. Because the installation process is the same across all the Fedora 17 editions, this tutorial can be used to set up a dual-boot system between Windows 7 and Fedora 17 main edition , which uses the GNOME 3 desktop environment, or any of the Fedora 17 Spins.
If you are not familiar with LVM and with disk partitioning in Linux, it is highly recommended that you read guide to disks and disks partitions in Linux and introductory articles to LVM here.
As on a default installation, two primary partitions and three logical volumes will be created. The second primary partition will be the LVM Physical Volume, under which the three logical volumes will be created. After the installation has completed, the computer will always boot into Windows, since it is installed on the first hard drive. The second method involves installing a special program on Windows 7.
From experience, the second method is not necessary, so the recommendation is to use the first method. If you have not done so already, download an installation image of Fedora 17 from here.
Transfer it to a suitable media and boot the computer from it. Start the installer and click through the first steps until you get to the one shown in the image below. Select Basic Storage Devices , the click Next. Because the hard drive that will be used for Fedora will be partitioned manually, select Create Custom Layout. Selecting Create Custom Layout and clicking Next in the previous step should land you in the window shown in the image below, where the disks and partitions connected to the computer are listed.
At the top of the list is sda , where Windows 7 is installed. You do not want to mess with that one. If there are existing partitions on it, as in this example, delete them. You do that by selecting each partition and clicking Delete. Again, be sure that you are not messing with any partition under sda. After deleting the partitions under sdb, select the free space and click Create to start creating partitions. You will be presented with the window shown here.
The default option on this window is Standard , which is what we want. Click Create. On the next window, shown here, there are three options that we have to modify. Tendremos que insertar nuestro cd con fedora 17 y reiniciar nuestra pc.
Esperemos a que se carguen los archivos desde el cd. Y haces click en Next. Aceptamos la licencia. Por ultimo nos solicitan de manera cordial enviemos el perfil de hardware de nuestro equipo. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Exit EasyBCD and reboot,. That is all it takes to dual-boot Fedora 15 and Windows 7 on a computer with one hard disk.
You can have quality articles like this delivered automatically to your Feed Reader or Inbox by subscribing via RSS or email. This website now has a Questions and Answers section. These tips are of great help indeed! I have been clueless about this Fedora 14 and soon after I came across your post, I was enlightened because of such information presented.
Thank you so much for sharing this, exactly what I was looking for! I seem to have two choices. I must say that I had great expectations from KDE 4. It disappointed me! KDE has become something like Windows Vista. They have destroyed all his power. Options dialogs that were huge and were giving great flexibility in configuration now become couple of checkboxes.
This is very bad! Then when finally system was installed I started it for the first time. Login screen was something ugly! Not only by design but also by functionality. What they have done with super login screen that existed in Fedora 8! The most shitty thing in the login screen is that it is unable to remember the last desktop environment that you have used. Yesterday I have installed Fedora 9.
First of all I want to say that I was waiting for this release for a very long time and I had expected stable, well tested OS from Fedora. But unfortunately it started disappointing me just from installation process.
When I have booted from Fedora 9 DVD to start installation process it asks for checking installation media. I said OK and it started to test. After test finished it ejected DVD and said that this is ok to install from this media. I pressed Enter. Then I pressed again Enter, it ejected again.
What a shit!!! I was unable to continue the installation, so I rebooted computer and started from beginning.
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Select it and click OK, Verify that the correct location is shown on this window before clicking Next to complete the installation. Share on facebook Facebook. Share on twitter Twitter.
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