Installing to a hard disk...

[kcmartz]

Hello, I recently downloaded a liveCD of fedora, and it looks similar to the linux's my school uses, even though it says Gentoo, I got the gentoo and it looks nothing like the school one, but this one does.

I, on my windows 7 computer, have the main partition as Win 7, but the factory image drive I emptied, formatted for linux and called it linux (the partition). I would like to install my liveCD to that partition. How do I do this?

[ryptyde]

Hopefully you have made a recovery/restore disk of the Windows 7 install!
I believe you could have left the recovery partition in place and used the Windows disk
management tool to shrink the Windows 7 ntfs partition by eg: 20 GB and that would
have left 20 GB of unallocated freespace to which Fedora would be installed.

I have used this method on several Windows Vista computers and when the Fedora live
installer asks where to install choose "freespace".

[kcmartz]

already overwrote :o

[marko]

eg: 20 MB and that would
have left 20 MB of unallocated freespace to which Fedora would be installed.

I think you meant 20GB

[kcmartz]

lol. yeah that looks wierd!

[ryptyde]

Originally Posted by marko

I think you meant 20GB

Yes 20 GB not a wimpy 20 MB!

[forkbomb]

Originally Posted by kcmartz

Hello, I recently downloaded a liveCD of fedora, and it looks similar to the linux's my school uses, even though it says Gentoo, I got the gentoo and it looks nothing like the school one, but this one does.

I, on my windows 7 computer, have the main partition as Win 7, but the factory image drive I emptied, formatted for linux and called it linux (the partition). I would like to install my liveCD to that partition. How do I do this?

Your school uses Gentoo? That almost sounds like it's worth the time. Maintaining a single Gentoo box is enough of a drag. The point of using Gentoo is more or less to tweak a machine specifically for a single machine. Unless they just keep one Gentoo box up-to-date and then image other machines with similar hardware with something like Ghost...

Anyway... /thinkingaloud

Truth is, Linux is Linux, in a way. You can take distro xyz and make it look and behave more or less like distro abc, given enough time and energy. Gentoo (and most other modern "robust" distros) can be set up to use the same GUIs Fedora can use, so that is probably why they "look" a lot alike upon first glance.

[kcmartz]

No, only my website development class has linux's, and half are linux's and half macintoshes, no windows are at my school!