I tried to craete a dual booting(Xp/Fedora) Pc with xp already installed and 60gb of free hard drive.Now I tried to install fedora 15 from usb(using the dvd iso in Unetbootin).I tried using a custom partition layout and allocated 2048 Mb for swap space and 100 Mb for boot partition.nextly, when I started to create a partiton and allocate 59Gb to it it did not work!Then I tried many times with smaller spaces but it simply showed "not enough space for partition".What to do now?
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Jump to PostBoot your unetbootin device, which is basically a live USB/CD/DVD, and log in as root. Start a terminal (command line) window and execute the command "fdisk /dev/sda". This should put you into the fdisk (disc partitioning utility). Delete the Linux partitions, quit (it will save the new partition table, and …
Jump to PostIs it just the installation DVD, or is it a live DVD? I assume you burned it to a physical disc (DVD)?
Jump to PostAh. Well, unetbootin will create a live USB thumb drive from the iso, but as far as I know, you can't just use it to install the system. Of course, I haven't used unetbootin in almost a year, so it may have changed. What OS were you running it from?
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