03-20-2008
yes, it is possible, but it really is a lot easier the other way around becasue most modern linux installers are quite happy to coexist with windows, but windows is not so accommodating.
Assuming that the disk is fully allocated to partitions you will need to use something like the
GParted -- LiveCD in order to resize the partitions. You will then install windows on the new partition, and then boot back to fedora and reconfigure and reinstall grub on the MBR.
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mic-livecd-iso-to-disk
MIC-LIVECD-ISO-TO-DISK(1) General Commands Manual MIC-LIVECD-ISO-TO-DISK(1)
NAME
mic-livecd-iso-to-disk - Convert a livecd image to a live USB image then write to a USB disk or partition
SYNOPSIS
mic-livecd-iso-to-disk [--reset-mbr] [--noverify] [--overlay-size-mb <size>] [--home-size-mb <size>] [--unencrypted-home] <isopath>
[usbstick device]
<isopath> is your livecd image path name, [usbstick device] is optional, if not provided, it will detect automatically and ask you to
select.
DESCRIPTION
mic-livecd-iso-to-disk can convert a livecd image to a live USB image and write it to a USB disk or partition, it is different from mic-
image-writer which is just a safer dd with progress bar.
mic-livecd-iso-to-disk can detect all the removable USB disks and let you select one of them, if you didn't insert any USB disk, it will
ask you to insert until a USB disk is available, it can decide if your USB disk need to be formated and if your USB disk has an appropriate
partition for this livecd image, all the operations are interactive and have warnings f they will damage your old data on your USB disk.
mic-image-manager has a GUI tool for it.
OPTIONS
--reset-mbr Set MBR on your USB disk
--noverify Don't verify your livecd image
--overlay-size-mb Specify overlay size, the default size is 64 MB
--home-size-mb Specify home size, the default is 0
EXAMPLES
Write a Molib live image to your USB disk:
mic-livecd-iso-to-disk your-2.1-final.img
EXIT STATUS
mic-livecd-iso-to-disk returns a zero exist status if it succeeds, otherwise return non-zero and print error message.
AUTHOR
Yi Yang, Anas Nashif, Jianfeng Ding
SEE ALSO
mic-image-creator(1), mic-convertor(1), mic-chroot(1), mic-image-writer(1), mic-image-manager(1)
perl v5.12.3 2011-05-31 MIC-LIVECD-ISO-TO-DISK(1)