God, I feel like a newbie asking this. But the first time I ran into it I have an xp sp3 box (thinkpad w500 laptop) I want to install fc12 on
So I boot with a fc12 live cd and choose "install to disk" Then I say I want to shrink the existing windows partition (150 gb SATA disk formated NTFS) so that the partition is shrunk to 100 GB (around 91 GB full), and 50 GB is left for Linux. The shrinking starts and the status bar goes back and forth - then throws an error. Says the shrink failed, and when I boot back into windows it runs a chkdsk /f to test the filesystem integrity. Yes I googled and the suggested fix is to defrag my hard disk and check it for errors. I've done that at least 3 times, no fragmentation after the first time I ran defrag. No errors either. I *could* use gparted to force shrink the partition but I think the fc12 gui installer uses gparted anyway .. so no particular use. And this is a machine that has some work related stuff that only runs on windows, I dont want to blow that away. [The fc12 is a corporate build of linux btw or I couldnt have tried installing it on this laptop] Suggestions welcome.. xp sp3 is a pain on a laptop with 4g ram of which it can hardly use 3g.
