On Wednesday 10 November 2010 08:05:34 Joachim Backes wrote: > On 11/10/2010 07:58 AM, Paul F. Johnson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My laptop already has Win7 on. Is there any way for me to dual boot to > > F14 without removing Win7 first? > > > > If there is, anyone know of a good "how to"? > > > > TTFN > > > > Paul > > Hi Paul, > > You can install F14, if there is enough disk place available for F14 > (possibly after reducing the Win partition(s) size(s)). The F14 > installer will install F14 in a new or free partition. Then the dual > boot will be possible by correspondent grub entries in > /boot/grub/grub.conf you likely must make after the first F14 boot (if > that has not been done by anaconda, the Fedora installer). > > As example my /boot/grub/grub.conf: > > title Fedora (2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686.PAE) > root (hd2,6) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686.PAE ro > root=LABEL=/F14 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=de-latin1-nodeadkeys rhgb quiet > initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686.PAE.img > > title Windows 7 > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > chainloader +1 > > Don't forget to run grub-install for writing the grub loader on your > boot disk (if not already done by anaconda). > > Kind regards
No need the Fedora installer, anaconda will recognise the Windows 7 partition and set up the dual boot for you. You may have to edit /etc/grub.conf after the install and comment out the hiddenmenu line. This will give you the dual boot menu at boot time. Tony
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