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Fedora 16 partitioning question

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – I want to install Fedora 16 on my laptop that already has Windows 7 installed. The problem is I can't figure out how to get around the 4 primary partition limit. Windows 7 is already taking up two partitions on it's on....the one for the OS and the 100 MB partition that Windows requires. This leaves me with only 2 partitions I can create and I still need the BIOS boot partition, the /boot partition, and a physical volume so I can set up LVM. How can I do this? (HowTos)

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Submitted by nicelinux on 04/11/2012 – Made popular on 04/11/2012

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