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Ok, trying this again.  I've got the HD down to just hda1 (Windows XP,
ntfs, 27.86GB).  The remaining 28.21GB is shown as free by qparted
(v0.4.1-cvs).  I'm working off of
<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.hut.fi/~tkarvine/linux-windows-dual-boot-resing-ntfs.html";>http://www.hut.fi/~tkarvine/linux-windows-dual-boot-resing-ntfs.html</a> .

Nathan J. Underwood wrote:

| Ok, I'm just now getting on the dual-boot bandwagon, and it's not quite
| as easy as I had expected.  I'm installing on an IBM Thinkpad with a
| 60GB drive, and WinXP Pro is already installed on hda1 (factory load).
| I used qtparted to size down the partition to 25GB, and wanted to setup
| a 10GB partition for Linux (Fedora Core1).  I read through this
| (<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.hut.fi/~tkarvine/linux-windows-dual-boot-resing-ntfs.html";>http://www.hut.fi/~tkarvine/linux-windows-dual-boot-resing-ntfs.html</a>),
| but couldn't get it to install.  At the point that it should / would
| normally start copying files, I get an error stating that I am probably
| out of drive space.  I had setup [swap] (hda2 = 512MB), /boot (hda3 =
| 100MB), / (hda3 = 9[ish]GB).  So, I figured I'd dorked something up, and
| restarted.  Same thing (I went as far as to delete the partitions so
| that there was just the 25GB NTFS, and a blank one).  So then, blew away
| those partitions (that Linux created) again, and started the install
| again, this time choosing the &quot;Personal Desktop&quot; option.  Same error.  I
| think I'm just missing something, but can't seem to figure out what it
| is.  I know that there's sufficient room there (on / ) for it to
| install, or should be at least.  What am I missing?
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