Partitioning for windows/arch dual-boot? Topic is solved

[viking60]

Yes it will not work if the partition is active and has gparted on it. It is like doing brain surgery on your own brains

[dedanna1029]

Yep, just thought of something else, too.

The installer requires an internet connection. All the wireless places here require that we login at the web page with a given username and password to activate the wireless.

How am I going to do that, from a Linux installer?

The school's connection even, we have to enter it into the network connection area itself in windows.

I am going to have to find a landline connection that doesn't require that to do this (now that I'm all partitioned and everything...). *sigh

Will have to wait I guess... unless there is some way I can start the installation from within windows.

Edit: It appears I have to play with this bug.

OR, boot off a live cd such as this one or this one (these links are direct download links), (via unetbootin), load up the browser, hook up to the wifi, then start the installation off the cd. Wondering if that would work.

[viking60]

Well you need to know a bit more about the wireless encryption method.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be ... ptional.29
It should be wpa2 these days.
If you can get network-manager to work you could try the username and password there.

[dedanna1029]

I'll be able to do it from the school. All it requires is the information entered into the network configuration. Everywhere else requires that once we login on the web, we go to another page where we have to accept terms of use, so that won't work.

I need to get my wireless password reset because I forgot it (just a matter of seeing IT at the school), then I should be good.

Have been sick so have to get caught up from that in class, then I should be able to get going with it.

Thanks.

[dedanna1029]

Fedora is happily installing now. Noticed that we have Meego for netbooks in it. Will install Arch later.

Edit: Time to wrap this one up. What I did:

1. Installed unetbootin, with it installed latest version of gparted.

2. Set boot to usb in BIOS, booted into gparted, resized the windows partion into a little less than half the drive's size.
3. With the new free space, I created an extended partition, of which I created and labeled each partition as, so I could visibly tell what was what, / (root), /boot, /swap, and /home.
4. From there, reset BIOS back to hard drive, installed Fedora 16 to unetbootin.
5. Rebooted, set drive order to boot into usb again, and the Fedora installation has been a cinch ever since. It is now a tad over a quarter of the way installing.

Resolved. This has been trying, but where there's a will, there's a way.

[viking60]

[dedanna1029]

Eh, the installation went great... until it got to around 92% installing, and found a corrupted file and quit. That was the second try. The first, was some 16% in. Then, another time it was at that 16%, I restarted the installation, removed the proggie from installation that had that corrupted file, and it found another one. :p

This is one thing I hate about Fedora. It doesn't let you just skip the file and go on and finish.

I've downloaded it some 4 times now, so I don't think it's the Fedora file itself. I'm beginning to wonder on unetbootin corrupting files when it extracts them.

Edit: Well... this time 'round it gave me option to "upgrade existing installation" - it probably got enough done last time. I took that option, it's seeing 55 packages that need installing. Let's hope it goes well this time. It's almost time to leave school. I don't have time to screw around. My AV has expired on Windows, so I'm itching to get it locked down. Windows doesn't belong being able to be connected to the internet. Period.