[Ilugc] setting up dual boot
- From: lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (kenneth gonsalves)
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:54:28 +0530
On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 07:21 -0400, Baskar Selvaraj wrote:
I have fedora on my system with the following
partitions: /, /home, /var
and swap. Also some free space. I wanted to install another distro
in
the free space. First I tried with mint - it said that no
preexisting
installation exists and wanted to format the disk afresh. Next I
tried
with Mandriva - this recognised the existing partitions, but I could
not
find any option to make it install in the free space. Any one has
some
experience in this?
Can you post of output of fdisk -l to see the partition information of
your
hdd.
[root at xlquest lawgon]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00088787
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 143362047 71680000 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 143362048 215042047 35840000 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 215042048 223234047 4096000 82 Linux swap /
Solaris
/dev/sda4 223234048 312581807 44673880 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 223236096 312580095 44672000 83 Linux
--
regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
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