Install Win7 after Fedora22

asked 2015-10-09 13:01:51 -0500

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updated 2015-10-17 11:36:49 -0500

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I need to install win7 on my computer because I have a course that requires visual studio as the IDE.

I considered trying to run it as a virtual machine or trying to doing some PXE magic to network boot it from a raspberry pi NAS setup I have.

In the end I have decided to just install Windows on my laptop harddrive and dual boot with my fedora.

Does this mean I have to wipe my fedora 22 install or can I just resize my partition and install windows on a separate virtual drive??

This is the current output of fdisk -l and to be honest I don't really understand the whole mapper/ drives and why my current setup seems to have two main partitions so any pointers towards tutorials would be really appreciated.

Disk /dev/sda: 119.2 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x000aa5fe

Device     Boot   Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *       2048   1026047   1024000   500M 83 Linux
/dev/sda2       1026048 250068991 249042944 118.8G 83 Linux


Disk /dev/mapper/luks-4e71cc62-e29d-4cef-b0d2-af66367de2bb: 118.8 GiB, 127507890176 bytes, 249038848 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/mapper/fedora-swap: 3.8 GiB, 4043309056 bytes, 7897088 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/mapper/fedora-root: 50 GiB, 53687091200 bytes, 104857600 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/mapper/fedora-home: 65 GiB, 69776441344 bytes, 136282112 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

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Thanks for the answer would you be able to expand a bit more Why is there 3 mapper drives on my fdisk list (are these needed or is this a quirk of something I did when I installed it)? Can I just resize /dev/sda2/ to 60GB and this will leave unpartitioned space for me to install windows? Whats the best tool to resize my partition?

lindsaymacvean ( 2015-10-09 14:53:20 -0500 )edit

You have 2 regular partitions and 3 LVM partitions swap, root and home, you could reduce home partition. To reduce LVM partitions you could use Disk utility or Gparted careful make a backup of your data before playing with the partitions.

aeperezt ( 2015-10-09 15:15:12 -0500 )edit

ok backing up data now, im going to try the resize and see if I can boot the windows installer and install on the unused space. Many thanks :)

lindsaymacvean ( 2015-10-09 15:32:20 -0500 )edit

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