[ale] RedHat 7.2 partition problem

[Jim Philips]

Heh! After severn years using Linux, htis is hte first time I tried using the 
GUI to handle partitions. I assumed it could do more than this. Now I know 
better. I'm going back to FIPS. Thanks.

On Thursday 27 June 2002 09:21 pm, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> Are you trying to create a dual boot with windows and linux or just
> linux?
> If you want to dual boot, you are going to have to delete the existing
> partition or resize it use something like fips or partition magic.
> You're getting the error because there is no more space on the hard
> drive.  IF you are doing linux only, you have to delete the existing
> FAT32 partition and then repartition for linux.
>
> Calvin...
>
> On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 20:46, Jim Philips wrote:
> > I am trying to install RH 7.2 on a Dell laptop. I get to partitiong and
> > it shows one vfat partition for the entire disk. Any time I select to add
> > a new partition of any size, I get this error message:
> >
> > "Could not allocate requested partitions:
> > Partitioning failed: Could not allocate partitions as primary
> > partitions."
> >
> > And it refuses to go any further. Does anybody know a way around this
> > roadblock?
> >
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