I would like some help/opinions installing Fedora 19 on a new computer which came with Windows 7 installed. I have shrunk the Windows partition to 40 gigs ( it's an 80 gig hd) and now have 4 partitions, two devoted to Windows and two empty ones...I plan to put Fedora in one of them.
Windows still boots fine after Gparted did it's work on the partitions. Windows chkdsk facility did check the installation after the partition re-sizing but everything was fine. I formatted the empty partitions with ext4, so the installation should be easy. The thing I am concerned about is Grub - has anybody had problems booting Windows after a Linux distruibution and Grub was installed ? Any advice ??
Thanks
On 07/07/2013 01:12 AM, Frank wrote:
I would like some help/opinions installing Fedora 19 on a new computer which came with Windows 7 installed. I have shrunk the Windows partition to 40 gigs ( it's an 80 gig hd) and now have 4 partitions, two devoted to Windows and two empty ones...I plan to put Fedora in one of them.
Windows still boots fine after Gparted did it's work on the partitions. Windows chkdsk facility did check the installation after the partition re-sizing but everything was fine. I formatted the empty partitions with ext4, so the installation should be easy. The thing I am concerned about is Grub - has anybody had problems booting Windows after a Linux distruibution and Grub was installed ? Any advice ??
Thanks
Just installed Korora 19, which is supposed to be very close to Fedora. There is Windows 7 and PCLOS-KDE-64 already on the disk. After a false start with the live disk (first time loaded it hung after KDE initialized, second time OK) and after all this, with Korora installed and grub2 in use, windows boots, and the Linux systems boot. If I had my druthers, I'd rather have original grub to boot everything from--for one thing, the opening screen is prettier in PCLOS--and for another, I know how to modify menu.lst if I need to. I don't know anything about Grub2.
--doug
On 06/07/2013 10:42 PM, Doug wrote:
On 07/07/2013 01:12 AM, Frank wrote:
I would like some help/opinions installing Fedora 19 on a new computer which came with Windows 7 installed. I have shrunk the Windows partition to 40 gigs ( it's an 80 gig hd) and now have 4 partitions, two devoted to Windows and two empty ones...I plan to put Fedora in one of them.
Windows still boots fine after Gparted did it's work on the partitions. Windows chkdsk facility did check the installation after the partition re-sizing but everything was fine. I formatted the empty partitions with ext4, so the installation should be easy. The thing I am concerned about is Grub - has anybody had problems booting Windows after a Linux distruibution and Grub was installed ? Any advice ??
Thanks
Just installed Korora 19, which is supposed to be very close to Fedora. There is Windows 7 and PCLOS-KDE-64 already on the disk. After a false start with the live disk (first time loaded it hung after KDE initialized, second time OK) and after all this, with Korora installed and grub2 in use, windows boots, and the Linux systems boot. If I had my druthers, I'd rather have original grub to boot everything from--for one thing, the opening screen is prettier in PCLOS--and for another, I know how to modify menu.lst if I need to. I don't know anything about Grub2.
--doug
Since you're the only one who replied...I'll install 19 and grub2 and live with the consequences :)
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Frank McCormick