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Help installing Fedora 17 KDE alongside Win7

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – Hi everyone, As a newbie to Fedora, but not to Linux (even thought there are things about it that still aren't that clear to me), I was looking for some advice in order to install the OS to my hard drive. I recently bought a new laptop, that came pre-installed with Win7. I don't like the partitioning scheme that the manufacturer did, so I'm going to wipe the whole HD (making the respective backups before, because of the warranty) and try to install first Win7, and then Fedora 17. The HD has 1 TB, so I have plenty of space. I know I need at least 1 partition with NTFS format where I'll insta (HowTos)

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Submitted by xiooo on 10/18/2012

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