Selecting Where to Install Fedora

The next screens allow you to select where Fedora will be installed. If you are installing Fedora by itself onto a machine that currently has no operating system, you probably want Fedora to use the entire hard disk. If you already have an operating system on your computer (either Linux or Windows), Fedora can replace the current operating system or coexist with it, each operating system having its own section of the hard disk, called a partition. Using multiple operating systems is discussed in Chapter 3. In addition, Fedora needs to divide its partition into subpartitions. You have the opportunity to tell Fedora how to organize its partition.

The first partitioning screen offers the choice to partition automatically ...

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