[plug] RH7.1 Install problem

[Dwight Jackson]

Simon,

I think I understand what you are saying .  Linux has taken the wjhole drive
with Disk Druid. It has allocated an EXT  DOS partition with all my linux
partitions in it. It has also taken the whole drive in the EXT DOS partition. I
can't create anymore partitions because it thinks it has taken all the space.
Even though I KNOW i have 10G left . But it won't let me touch it. I didn't
tick the autofill button on any of my allocations( i think) . I will try what
you advised giving root so much and then swap space.
Thanks for replying. I think I will start from scratch and get windows working
again , then add Linux again

Simon Scott wrote:

>         OK, if you are using that curses based partitioner (ummm, forgotten
> its name) youll notice when you allocate there will be a switch to basically
> 'autofill'. If you have 14G unpartitioned (if its 14G free under windows you
> have to resize the windows partition) then adding, for example, the root
> partition with this set will use all 14G for the root partition. Thats ok
> tho, just keep adding partitions and the root partition will shrink. Play
> with it a bit, youll get the idea.
>
>         Probably the best and easiest way to partition until you get a bit
> more experience would be to partition 2x your ram as swap, and the rest as
> /.
>
>         If this isnt the problem, maybe provide us with a bit more info?
>
>         From:   Dwight Jackson <djackson at transport.wa.gov.au> on 22-06-2001
> 12:18 PM
>         Please respond to plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
>         To:     plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
>         cc:
>
>         Subject:        [plug] RH7.1 Install problem
>
>         Trying to get RH7.1 running on my desktop. I also have win98
> running.
>         Everytime I try to partition the hard drive it says I have 14GB
>         remaining but when trying to allocate partitions for the mount
> points at
>         the top it says no free space. I have ghosted the PC and formatted
> the
>         disk. Then loaded my PC image and then tried to reload RH7.1 but
> still
>         the same problem. I'm really new to RH though RH7 was a breeze to
>         install. I had a look at the fdisk in RH7.1 as well but it will only
>         allow 4 primary partitons and I think win98 has one and I have an
>         extended partition for Novell.
>         My partition table looks like so:
>         <not set>    hda3    2047M Win95 FAT32
>         <not set>    hda5    1027M Win95 FAT32
>         <not set>    hda6    1019M Win95 FAT32
>         in Disk Druid and in FDISK it looks like this:
>         /tmp/hda1            262    522    2096482+    5     Extended
>         /tmp/hda3                1    261    2096451+    b    WIN95    FAT32
>         /tmp/hda5           262      392   1052226+    b    WIN95    FAT32
>         /tmp/hda6          393       522    1044193+    b    WIN95    FAT32
>
>         I have an extended partition with 2 logical drives in it. Now with
> Fdisk
>         how can I partition my filesystems on this hard drive??
>
>         Remembering I'm still fairly new to Linux any ideas??
>
>         Thanks,
>         DJ
>          <<djackson.vcf>>
>
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